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[notyourbroom]

clitic morphemes are silly.

i just had an interesting speech phenomenon;

I was talking to myself (because that's how I roll) and the following sprang forth--An item of-- a lexical item, rather, 's denotation [...]
The syntax of that sequence is pretty interesting. With my current level of knowledge, I would construct it, I think, like this:

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[nekokaze]

I know from running into this stuff in my own spontaneous speech that I can have similar insertions before that clitic, but not with "rather", unfortunately. You should see to whom such a use is grammatical. ("Rather" has a very limited syntactic role for me in terms of production, though I'm fully aware that others use it more often and more interestingly.)

[nekokaze]

P.S. The last thing I was thinking about before reading this post was clitics. COINCIDENCE, OR INATE BEHAVIOR? YOU DECIDE.

Though that was actually more about Japanese reductions and which I would call clitics and the theoretically possible (if I'm recalling one bit right) utterance 照っててってった tette-te-tte-tta (shine.CONNECTIVE-CONT-QUOT-say.PST, roughly) '(he/she) told (you) to keep shining'.

[drake_anaya]

http://syndicated.livejournal.com/indv101fountain/9749.html was also on my FL this afternoon