Aspects of the theory of clitics
"The study of clitics has broad implications for a general understanding of sentence structure in natural language. This is the first book to cover the grammar of clitics from all points of view, including their phonology and syntax and relation to morphology. In the process, it deals with the relation of second position clitics to verb-second phenomena in Germanic and other languages, the grammar of contracted auxiliary verbs in English, noun incorporation constructions, and several other much discussed topics in grammar. Stephen Anderson includes analyses of a number of particular languages, and some of these - such as Kwakw'ala ('Kwakiutl') and Surmiran Rumantsch - are based on his own field research. Stephen Anderson's clearly-written, wide-ranging, and original account will be of wide interest to scholars and advanced students of phonology, morphology, and syntax."--Jacket
ix, 317 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780199279906, 9780199279913, 0199279918, 019927990X
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What is a clitic?
The phonology of cliticization
Special clitics and their grammar
Theories of special clitics
An optimal theory of clitic positioning
Verb second as alignment
Pronominal clitics
Clause structure and the grammar incorporation