ABSTRACT
Chapter 4 presents a thorough investigation of enclitics and the clitic group composed of the host plus the enclitic, i.e., the Type A clitic group, in the Fuzhou dialect. Based on the discussion of clitics and the clitic group across languages, this chapter analyzes Fuzhou enclitics and the Type A clitic group from the perspectives of morphosyntactic functions and phonological behavior. Data from the Fuzhou dialect show that Fuzhou enclitics share common properties with clitics across languages and demonstrate that the Type A clitic group in this dialect has very distinctive phonological behavior. It is shown that the TS rule and the FC rule are obligatorily blocked between the host and the enclitic within the Type A clitic group domain, whereas the application of the CL rule between the host and the enclitic is mandatory. This chapter also discusses the violation of the SLH, specifically the violation of the constraints of Nonrecursivity and Layeredness, in the case of the Type A clitic group, arguing that a weakened SLH is required in the prosodic phonology of the Fuzhou dialect.
