The construct state in Tarifit Berber

Title: The construct state in Tarifit Berber
Creator: El Hankari, Abdelhak
Relation: Lingua Vol. 148, p. 28-52
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2014.05.008
Publisher: Elsevier
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2014
Description: This paper investigates the Construct State (CS) in Tarifit Berber. Given that the phenomenon occurs only in certain syntactic environments, this suggests that it has syntactic ramifications and is not the result of purely phonological operations. Its exact nature is argued to be a language-specific property which arises from a syntactic relation between an NP and a higher c-commanding head. Crucial to this relation is the fact the CS triggering head can only be T or P. The paper also investigates the phonological implications of the CS. After the configuration is formed in the Syntax and sent for interpretation by the phonological component, it is suggested that the CS NP and its c-commanding head are spelt out in phonology as one phonological word. On a theoretical level, the paper argues that this typology can be better articulated under a modular approach in the sense of Distributed Morphology whereby the phonological component interprets the syntactic output.
Subject: Tarifit Berber; Construct State; distributed morphology; phonological word
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1304839
Identifier: uon:20938
Identifier: ISSN:0024-3841
Language: eng
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