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• Title:
  Backernagel is Wackernagel Lite. On the “P-Minus 2” Clitics of Santali
• Creator:
  Hock, Hans Henrich
• Description:
  Santali presents structures with subject clitics in “P minus 2” (P-2) position, before the final verb andenclitic on the preverbal element, a position called “Backernagel” by Kidwai (2005). P-2 is commonlyconsidered to lack clear cross-linguistic support; moreover, while generative accounts can accommodateutterance-second position (P2) as adjunction to a left-peripheral projection, they have no ready wayof accommodating P -2.The history and synchrony of Munda “P-2” have elicited several accounts. Anderson (2007) considersthree possibilities: Reanalysis of P roto-Munda subject proclitics as enclitic; extension of postverbalobject clitics to preverbal subject function; attachment of original resumptive pronouns to the preverbalelement.I present evidence for a different hypothesis: T he Santali Backernagel clitics originate as P 2 or classicalW ackernagel elements. A more fine-grained definition of W ackernagel in terms of different prosodicdomains (such as utterance/theme vs. rheme) permits the hypothesis that the apparent P -2 is stilla W ackernagel position, but within the rheme rather than the entire utterance, and that within the rheme,the prosodically strongest, preverbal-focus element is the most attractive clitic host.I support my account with evidence from Santali and other K herwarian languages (which offer traces ofan original P 2 position) and parallel developments in Iranian (where the different stages in the developmentcan be traced in greater detail).Backernagel, thus, is a subtype of W ackernagel, and there is no need to assume a typologically problematicP -2 position for Munda (or for various Iranian varieties).
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 ;
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2013 Hans Henrich Hock
• Date:
  2013.12.01
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Lingua Posnaniensis; Vol. 55 No. 2; 67-75;
  Lingua Posnaniensis; Tom 55 Nr 2; 67-75;
  2083-6090;
  0079-4740
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/linpo/article/view/linpo-2013-0014/28335
• Subject:
  clitics;
  P 2 (Wackernagel) vs. “P minus 2” (Backernagel);
  prosody;
  language change
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/linpo/article/view/linpo-2013-0014
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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  text