Aspects of the Theory of Clitics

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Oxford University, 2005 - 317 стор.
The first book to cover the grammar of clitics from all points of view, including their phonology, morphology, and syntax, and the first comprehensive survey of clitic phenomena for twenty years. Written with exceptional clarity and based on a course given to graduate students.
 

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1 Introduction
1
2 What is a Clitic?
9
3 The Phonology of Cliticization
37
4 Special Clitics and their Grammar
75
5 Theories of Special Clitics
107
6 An Optimal Theory of Clitic Positioning
127
7 Verb Second as Alignment
177
8 Pronominal Clitics
227
9 Clause Structure and the Grammar of Incorporation
257
References
289
Index of Subjects
303
Index of Names
311
Index of Languages
315
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Stephen R. Anderson is Professor of Linguistics, Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale University. He has previously taught at Harvard University, UCLA, Stanford, and The Johns Hopkins University. Among his other books are A-Morphous Morphology (1992), The Language Organ, co-authored by David Lightfoot (2002), and Doctor Dolittle's Delusion: Animals and the Uniqueness of Human Language (2004). He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has held a Guggenheim Fellowship.

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