Aspects of the Theory of Clitics
Stephen Anderson
Abstract
This book is about the grammar of clitics. It considers 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. The book includes analyses of a number of particular languages, and some of these — such as Kwakw'ala (nullKwakiutlnull) and Surmiran Rumantsch — are based on the author's own field research. ... More
Keywords: grammar, phonology, syntax, morphology, verb-second phenomena, contracted auxiliary verbs, noun incorporation constructions
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2005 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199279906 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2007 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199279906.001.0001 |
