A alomorfia dos pronomes de objeto em caboverdiano

• Autor(a) principal: Salanova, Andrés Pablo
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: Pratas, Fernanda
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/33706
• topic: Capeverdean creole; Past affix; Object clitics; Phonological rules; Late insertion

In Capeverdean, object pronominals can be phonological enclitics or free-standing forms, either in accusative or dative contexts. Crucially, pronominal enclitic forms are ruled out on verbs carrying the past suffix -ba. This fact has been analysed (Baptista, 2002) as being related to the banning of clitic clusters. In this view, the affix -ba is considered a clitic, barring other enclitics. A problem of this view is that -ba has to be stipulated to be a clitic, where there is no evidence for this. In this paper, we propose a phonological solution to these Capeverdean facts, based on the following two elements, independently justified: (i) a simple stress rule for the language; (ii) a filter against shifting the stress out of the verb stem. If our phonologically based proposal is correct, it gives support to the distributed morphology framework (Halle e Marantz, 1993): morphemes are bundles of abstract (syntactic-semantic) features that are provided with phonological features at Vocabulary Insertion (VI), which is conditioned by phonological rules and constraints.