چکیده:
Personal clitics are so interwoven with the fabric of the grammatical structure of Iranian languages that, in some cases, the taxonomic classification of these languages can be determined based on the behavior of these clitics (in contrast to the behavior of other similar elements). The investigation of the formal distribution of these clitics has always been a stimulus for theoretical discussions regarding the nature of clitic host selection and the domains involved in determining this process. The aim of the present research is to examine the distribution of personal agreement clitics (hereafter, agreement clitics) in Iranian languages and, consequently, to provide a theoretical explanation for the nature of their host selection. This research attempts to show that agreement clitics in Iranian languages have freedom of movement for host selection within the domain of the core verbal group and, in other words, they can be called second-position clitics (within the core verbal group). A theoretical question that can be raised following this investigation is why the core verbal group fundamentally forms the necessary domain for the host selection of these clitics. To achieve an answer to this question, by examining the host selection behavior of clitics and the constraints observing it, such as the non-acceptance of adverbs as hosts, it is shown that Phase Theory provides the necessary theoretical tool to explain and determine the host selection domain of clitics. Specifically, by taking into account Phase Theory and the cyclic derivation of sentences, it is shown that the specifier verbal group forms a cyclic (phased) derivation, the complement of which, the core verbal group, is sent to phonological representation before the derivation of the grammatical role layers of the sentence. It is in this specific cycle that clitics determine their host, and essentially, the higher layers of sentence derivation are not available to clitics for host selection because the derivational layers are sent to phonological representation in subsequent cycles. Therefore, by considering phases as theoretical structures, it can be concluded that clitic host selection is fundamentally explainable at the level of the syntax-phonological interface and that clitic host selection, as a secondary phenomenon, is the automatic result of independent syntax-phonological processes.
خلاصه ماشینی:
By assuming the general principles of Phase Theory, which state that syntactic derivations are handed over step-by-step to the phonological form component, such it will be argued that the phonetic domain of host selection for matching clitics is limited to the complement of the first phase or the nuclear verbal group.
" If none of the verbal complements are present in the past transitive clause (being a null pronoun or an empty subject), the agreement affix appears on the verb 1 : 8) Hiwa u Hana pro xward=yan 3.
We believe that in the phase-based approach to sentence derivation, each phase transferred to the phonological component forms an independent phonological domain, and within this domain, the first word/constituent becomes the target for the host-selection of the second-position affix.
This is while Iranian languages have selected the first phase (vP) for this purpose as the phonological domain, and therefore, naturally is that the agreement affixes, which are of the second-position type, select the first word/constituent of this transferred phase in the phonological component as the host-selection domain.
First, assuming that the host-selection domain of the agreement affix is the complement of the phase transferred to the phonological component, it is predicted that adverbs with a limited scope to the core verbal group will host the agreement affix.
Since only the core verbal group is handed over to the phonological form component in the first phase, this structure automatically becomes the only domain for determining the host for the agreement clitic.
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