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Prosodically-driven morpheme non-realization in the Minorcan Catalan DP
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[eng] This article focuses on a case of prosodically-driven morpheme non-realization found in the Minorcan Catalan DP that has not been documented or accounted for in the previous literature. In this variety of Catalan, kinship restrictive appositive phrases show the realization of the masculine personal article if the following personal name starts with a consonant (es conco en Toni, the-DEF.ART.M uncle the-PERS.ART.M Toni 'uncle Toni'), but not if it starts with a vowel (es conco Àngel, the-DEF.ART.M uncle Àngel 'uncle Àngel'). This asymmetrical pattern is entirely unexpected since a preconsonantal coda is generated in the former cases (cf. es conco en Toni [əs.kòŋ.kun.tɔ́.ni]) and an onsetless syllable and a hiatus are generated in the latter (cf. es conco Àngel [əs.kòŋ.ku.án.ʒəl]). The structures obtained are indeed non-optimizing from a strictly syllabic point of view and stand as a clear case of antimarkedness. We argue that this asymmetric behavior is prosodic in nature, and is mainly driven by the need to keep the left edge of the prosodic word free of clitic material, without challenging basic syllabification constraints active in Catalan. We further justify how the cases under scrutiny shed new light on the typology of alignment constraints referred to the alignment between prosodic and lexical categories, on the nature of morpheme realization constraints, and on the morphosyntax-phonology interface.
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PONS-MOLL, Clàudia, TORRES-TAMARIT, Francesc, MASCARÓ, Ignasi. Prosodically-driven morpheme non-realization in the Minorcan Catalan DP. _Linguistics_. 2023. Vol. 61, núm. 3, pàgs. 499-546. [consulta: 24 de gener de 2026]. ISSN: 0024-3949. [Disponible a: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/198189]