This paper investigates the positional distribution of an auxiliary clitic in Eastern Armenian in informationally marked sentences. The paper builds on previous work on the distribution of the auxiliary in focus‐neutral contexts (Kahnemuyipour & Megerdoomian 2011), where its placement was analyzed as second position within the lower phase domain (or vP), thereby extending the inventory of known second‐position phenomena from the clause to the smaller verbal domain. To account for the distribution of the auxiliary in sentences with focused constituents, it is proposed here that the relevant phase in this context is the Focus Phrase, with the auxiliary appearing in the expected second position. This falls into place under a dynamic view of phasehood that defines the phase as the highest projection of a lexical category and takes low focus to be part of the verbal domain and its corresponding phase (Bošković 2014). These proposals rely highly on the parallelism between clausal and verbal domains both in terms of their status as phases as well as their structural makeup. To the extent that these proposals succeed in accounting for the facts we discuss, they provide further evidence for the dynamic conception of phases as well as the CP–vP parallelism.

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关于亚美尼亚辅助设备的位置分布：第二位置的气候，焦点和阶段

本文研究了信息标记句子中亚美尼亚东部一个辅助气候的位置分布。本文基于先前在焦点中性背景下分配辅助物的工作（Kahnemuyipour＆Megerdoomian 2011），分析了辅助物在较低相域（或vP）中的第二位置，从而扩展了已知第二相的清单。从子句到较小的言语领域的位置现象。为了说明辅助语在具有集中成分的句子中的分布，在此建议在此上下文中的相关阶段是焦点短语，辅助语出现在预期的第二位置。这是在阶段性的动态视图下实现的，该阶段将阶段定义为词汇类别的最高投影，并把重点放在词域及其对应阶段的一部分上（Bošković2014）。这些提议在其阶段状态和结构构成方面都高度依赖于从句和言语领域之间的平行性。在这些建议成功地解释了我们讨论的事实的程度上，它们为阶段的动态概念以及CP–vP并行性提供了进一步的证据。