This paper argues for a uniform X⁰‐raising analysis of VSO and VOS word order in Niuean. Accounting for VSO via X⁰ raising has a strong foundation in the V1 literature; the claim that X⁰ raising can also underlie VOS word order—as in Niuean's pseudo‐noun‐incorporation construction—is more controversial. This paper explains the VOS order of Niuean pseudo noun incorporation by appealing to a condition on prosodic well‐formedness, Argument‐φ, that requires a head and its internal argument(s) to form a unique phonological phrase. In order to satisfy this requirement, the incorporated argument undergoes prosodic restructuring into a position adjacent to the verb at PF. Since the verb arrives at its clause‐initial position via X⁰ raising, the syntactic input to the prosodic grammar is VSO, while the prosodic output is VOS.

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韵律名词的并入：纽安韵律与论证结构的关系

本文主张对纽埃州的VSO和VOS字序进行统一的X ⁰提升分析。通过X ⁰提升对VSO进行核算在V1文献中有很深的基础。声称X ⁰上升也可以作为VOS单词顺序的依据（如纽埃的伪名词合并结构一样）更具争议性。本文通过诉说韵律结构良好的条件Argument - φ来解释纽安假名词合并的VOS顺序，需要一个头及其内部自变量形成一个唯一的语音短语。为了满足此要求，合并的自变量进行了韵律重构，转换为与PF处的动词相邻的位置。由于动词通过X ⁰上升到达其从句初始位置，因此韵律语法的句法输入为VSO，而韵律输出为VOS。