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On the boundaries of inflection and syntax: Greek pronominal clitics and particles

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Yearbook of Morphology 1998

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A fundamental concern of linguistic theory is the identification of its basic units. The unit of word, as traditionally conceived, unites all levels of linguistic description; Lexicon, where words are both stored and derived; Syntax, the principles that govern the organisation of words into phrases, and Phonology, where words provide the frame for a number of phonological phenomena. The fact that words constitute the meeting point of all three levels makes them sensitive to the different demands of these levels and for this reason words constitute an excellent domain of study in the search for establishing the borders of these levels and their effects on each other.

This is a revised version of a paper presented at the First Mediterranean Conference of Morphology (Lesvos 1997). We would like to thank the organisers of that conference and the participants for their comments on our work. We also thank two anonymous reviewers for their stimulating and constructive comments. Vassilios Spyropoulos also thanks the State Scholarship Foundation of the Hellenic Republic for the financial support of his studies.

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Philippaki-Warburton, I., Spyropoulos, V. (1999). On the boundaries of inflection and syntax: Greek pronominal clitics and particles. In: Booij, G., van Marle, J. (eds) Yearbook of Morphology 1998. Yearbook of Morphology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3720-3_3

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