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  • Language Family: Other Benue-Congo
  • Topic #1: Morphology
  • Topic #2: Syntax
Second Position Clitics in Degema: A Reanal Second Position Clitics in Degema: A Reanalysis

This paper reanalyzes so-called second position clitics in Degema as verb-adjacent clitics. The reanalysis is based on the observation that these clitics cannot be separated from the verb by intervening elements. Kari (2002a, 2003a and 2003b) analyzes subject clitics in Degema as second position clitics on the basis of the separability of these clitics from the (main) verb by intervening elements, such as auxiliary verbs and preverbal adverbs. With the reanalysis of so-called preverbal adverbs (Kari 2003a, 2003b and 2004) as auxiliary verbs in Kari (2008), the separability test that was used to argue in favour of second position clitics in the language is vitiated. Also, auxiliary verbs and preverbal adverbs that were hitherto considered intervening elements are no more seen as intervening elements but as part and parcel of the verb, which may consist of a main verb alone or a sequence of a main verb and a preceding auxiliary verb. A very important claim in the literature on clitics is that the presence of clitic doubling in a language is closely tied to the existence of verb-adjacent clitics (Franks and King 2000). Thus, the reanalysis of so-called second position clitics in Degema as verb-adjacent clitics provides a plausible explanation as regards the presence of clitic doubling in the language.

Cet article réanalyse la prétendue seconde position des clitiques en degema come des clitiques adjacents au verbe. La réanalyse se base sur l’observation que ces clitiques ne peuvent se séparer du verbe par des éléments intermédiaires. Kari (2002a, 2003a et 2003b) analyse les clitiques sujet en degema comme de clitiques de seconde position sur la base de la séparabilité de ces clitiques du verbe (principal) par des éléments intermédiaires tels que les verbes auxiliaires et les adverbes pré-verbaux. Avec la réanalyse des prétendus adverbes préverbaux (Kari 2003a, 2003b et 2004) comme des verbes auxiliaires dans Kari (2008), le test de séparabilité qui avait été utilisé pour argumenter en faveur des clitiques de seconde position dans la langue est discrédité. En outre, les verbes auxiliaires et les adverbes préverbaux qui avaient été considérés jusque là comme des éléments intermédiaires ne le sont plus vus de cette manière mais comme une partie intégrante du verbe, qui peut consister d’un verbe principal seulement or d’une séquence du verbe principal et d’un verbe auxiliaire précédent. Une affirmation importante en cours dans la littérature sur les clitiques est que le redoublement de clitique dans une langue est étroitement lié à l’existence des clitiques adjacents aux verbes (Franks et King 2000). Ainsi, la réanalyse de prétendus clitiques de seconde position en degema comme des clitiques adjacents aux verbes fournit une explication plausible par rapport à la présence du redoublement de clitique dans la langue.

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