1st Edition

On Clitics and Cliticization The Interaction of Morphology, Phonology, and Syntax

By Judith L. Klavans Copyright 1995
210 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1995. This investigation shows that cliticization is not a totally unified phenomenon. Asymmetries in the behaviour of phonological and syntactic clitics show that no single principle predicts all clitic behaviour. The study explores the idea that modifications to the original five parameter system of analysis can be altered to a more efficient analysis in terms of three... Read more

Foreword Arnold M. Zwicky;  Acknowledgements;  Preface;  Introduction;  Terminology;  1. Initial Facts  2. Typology of Clitics and Cliticization  3. Analysis of Cliticization: Review and Problems  4. Towards a New Theory of Clitics  5. On Stress and Cliticization;  References;  Indexes

Biography

Judith L. Klavans is the Principal Investigator on the Mellon-funded Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building (CLiMB) research project, now based at the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland.