Edited by Aslı Gürer, Dilek Uygun-Gökmen and Balkız Öztürk
[Studies in Language Companion Series 215] 2020
► pp. 93–120
An inquiry into the person indexing system of Sauzini, a West-Iranian language spoken in certain villages in the western Black Sea region of Turkey, reveals two different paradigms of bound person marking in the language. One is subject agreement markers on predicates and the other non-subject bound pronominals, namely clitics. The latter group which surfaces in different syntactic environments alternates with free pronouns. The distribution of pronominal clitics in Sauzini displays the different types of syntactic structures they take part in and reveals that the host they select is instrumental in formally differentiating between different argument types as well as semantic roles. Thus, an account of clitic behavior constitutes an instance of morphology-syntax and semantics interface in this language.