Harris, Alice
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Publication Open Access Revisiting Anaphoric Islands(2006) Harris, Alice CarmichaelPostal (1969) discusses words as anaphoric islands. So-called OUTBOUND ANAPHORA was further discussed in a series of papers published in the 1970s through the early 1990s, but INBOUND ANAPHORA, such as Postal’s *himite (beside McCarthyite), has received less attention. It is shown here that a wide variety of words in Georgian are based on pronouns, including fully referential personal pronouns, reflexive pronouns, question words, quantifiers, and negative pronouns. Thus, the nonoccuring combinations of English are a language-particular problem.Publication Metadata only On the Fused Pronoun in Andi, Avar and Andian Languages(2010) Harris, Alice CarmichaelPublication Metadata only The Prehistory of Udi Locative Cases and Locative Preverbs(2003) Harris, Alice CarmichaelPublication Metadata only Active/Inactive Marking(2006) Harris, Alice CarmichaelPublication Open Access External Modifiers in Georgian(2006) Harris, Alice CarmichaelThis paper addresses the issue of stranded modifiers and null heads through two otherwise unrelated constructions in Georgian. In each construction, a word in the oblique form modifies part of the complex word following it. It is shown that null modifiers in Georgian have a form different from that of the modifiers in the constructions at issue, and the latter cannot have null heads. However, Baker’s (1988) approach is not easily compatible with the derivational morphology of these examples. I propose an analysis in terms of Beard (1991), which addresses other bracketing paradoxes by permitting “the semantic features of an attribute [to] subjoin with one and only one semantic feature of its head” (1991: 208). In this way I suggest a unified analysis of the two construction types, drawing on a mechanism that must be included in the grammar for non-derived words as well.Publication Open Access Where in the Word is the Udi Clitic?(2000) Harris, Alice CarmichaelThis article shows that endoclitics do exist in Udi, a language of the North East Caucasian family, and this fact poses a challenge to the lexicalist hypothesis. Clitics may be positioned between the morphemes of complex verb stems and immediately before the final segments of monomorphemic verb stems. The author argues, on the basis of accepted tests for wordhood, that complex verb stems are single words, not phrases. On the basis of criteria developed by Zwicky and Pullum (1983), it is argued that the clitics of Udi are true clitics. An analysis of the placement of clitics in various positions inside verb stems is proposed in optimality theory. The author shows that phonological phenomena do not provide an alternative basis for positioning these clitics and concludes that clitics in Udi are a counterexample to the lexical integrity hypothesis.Publication Metadata only The Status of Person Marking in Nij Udi(2005) Harris, Alice CarmichaelPublication Metadata only Origins of Apparent Violations of the “No Phrase” Constraint in Modern Georgian(2002) Harris, Alice CarmichaelPublication Metadata only Preverbs and their Origins in Georgian and Udi(2003) Harris, Alice CarmichaelPublication Metadata only Origins of Differential Unaccusative/Unergative Case Marking: Implications for Innateness(2010) Harris, Alice Carmichael
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