A alomorfia dos pronomes de objeto em caboverdiano

Salanova, Andrés Pablo; Pratas, Fernanda

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Salanova, Andrés Pablo

Pratas, Fernanda

Abstract(s)

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.