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The goal of this dissertation is to take generalizations made in a variety of phonological and morphological theories and account for them in a piece-based syntactic theory of morphology. The theories discussed are Cyclic phonology, Lexical Phonology (and Stratal Optimality Theo…

This thesis presents a description of the system of pronominal clitics in the Logar dialect of Ormuri, an Iranian language of Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Logar dialect is based in the Logar province of Afghanistan and is near to extinction. The thesis studies grammatical const…

Wakhi past tense agreement clitics are classified as second position, or Wackernagel, clitics, similar to those in Pashto, Tagalog and Ancient Greek. Various approaches in the literature analyze these clitics through phonological, syntactic or hybrid perspectives. In some propos…