The Verbal Phrase in Paraguayan Guarani: A Case Study on the Role of Prosody in Linearization

This paper examines in detail the morpho-syntax of verbal phrase Paraguayan Guarani, root and complement clauses, argues that while ordering relation between verb its associated functional morphemes is congruent with syntax (cf. Mirror Principle), post-verbal arguments best understood terms phonological linearization. More specifically, it argued there are language-particular prosodic requirements force to be phonologically linearized outside accentual domain defined by morphemes.