Morphology and Universals in Syntactic Change by Joseph Brian D

Author:Joseph, Brian D.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)

*mu to doste

*to mu doste

(53) dinondas tu to

giving/GRDV him/GEN it/ACC

'Giving it to him ...'

*tu to dinondas

*to tu dinondas

(54) episkeptomenos tin

visiting/PPL her/ACC

'Visiting her ...'

*tin episkeptomenos.

Clitics precede all finite verbs which govern them:

(55) ton ida s to dromo

him/ACC saw/1SG on the-street

'I saw him on the street'

*ida ton s to dromo

(56) tu to edosa

him/GEN it/ACC gave/1SG

'I give it to him'

*edosa tu to

*edosa to tu.

The important fact for this argument is that even though the second member of the exo grapsi perfects, the invariant form grapsi, appears to be a non-finite verbal form, and even though clitics in these perfects are governed in logical structure by this second member and not by exo, nonetheless, clitics must attach to the left of exo, and cannot attach to the invariant form:W

(57) ton exo di sixna

him/ACC have/1SG see often

'I have often seen him'

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