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Phonological constituents and their movement in Latin*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2016

Brian Agbayani  and
Chris Golston
Brian Agbayani*
Affiliation:
California State University, Fresno
Chris Golston*
Affiliation:
California State University, Fresno
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E-mail: bagbayan@csufresno.edu, chrisg@csufresno.edu.
E-mail: bagbayan@csufresno.edu, chrisg@csufresno.edu.
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Abstract

We document a fronting process in Latin that is difficult to model as syntactic movement but fairly easy to model as phonological movement. Movement with similar properties has been observed elsewhere in Classical Greek, Russian, Irish and Japanese; we suggest that the Latin movement is of the same type and takes place in the phonological component of the grammar, following the mapping from syntactic to prosodic structure.

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Phonology , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , May 2016 , pp. 1 - 42
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2016 

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For helpful comments and questions we'd like to thank audiences at Auckland University, Stockholm University, California State University, Fresno, the University of California, Santa Cruz, the UCLA Indo-European Conference, the Annual Meeting on Phonology at MIT, ‘Parallel domains: a workshop in honor of Jean-Roger Vergnaud at the University of Southern California’ and ‘The prosodic hierarchy in a typological perspective’ at Stockholm University. Special thanks to A. M. Devine, Lawrence Stephens and Ben Fortson for help with the Latin, to three anonymous reviewers at Phonology and to Arto Anttila for helping us clarify the presentation of our ideas. Any errors of data and/or analysis are our own.

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