Topics in the Placement and Morphology of Clitics
Title | Topics in the Placement and Morphology of Clitics PDF eBook |
Author | Aaron Lars Halpern |
Publisher | |
Pages | 674 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Grammar, Comparative and general |
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Topics in the Placement and Morphology of Clitics
Title | Topics in the Placement and Morphology of Clitics PDF eBook |
Author | Aaron Lars Halpern |
Publisher | |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 1994 |
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Clitics in Phonology, Morphology and Syntax
Title | Clitics in Phonology, Morphology and Syntax PDF eBook |
Author | Birgit Gerlach |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 457 |
Release | 2001-02-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027299196 |
This book contains fourteen articles that reflect current ideas on the phonology, morphology, and syntax of clitics. It covers the forms and functions of clitics in various typologically diverse languages and presents data from, e.g. European Portuguese, Macedonian, and Yoruba. It extensively deals with the prosodic structure of clitics, their morphological status, clitic placement, and clitic doubling. The form and behavior of clitics with respect to tonal phenomena and in verse are discussed in two articles (Akinlabi & Liberman, Reindl & Franks). Other articles address the prosodic representation of clitics in Irish (Green), the differences in the acquisition of clitics and strong pronouns in Catalan (Escobar & Gavarro), the similarities between clitics and affixes or words in Romance and Bantu languages (Cocchi, Crysmann, Monachesi, Ortman & Popescu), the semantics of clitics in the Greek DP and in Spanish doubling (Alexiadou & Stavrou, Uriagereka), and complex problems concerning verbal clitics in Romanian and Balkan languages (Legendre, Spencer, Tomic).
On the Placement and Morphology of Clitics
Title | On the Placement and Morphology of Clitics PDF eBook |
Author | Aaron Halpern |
Publisher | Center for the Study of Language (CSLI) |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9781881526605 |
Using data from a variety of languages, this book investigates the place of clitics in the theory of language structure, and their implications for the relationships between syntax, morphology and phonology. It is argued that the least powerful theory of language requires us to recognise at least two classes of clitics, one with the syntax of independent phrases and the other with the syntax of inflectional affixes. It is also argued that prosodic conditions may influence the surface position of clitics beyond what may be accomplished by filtering potential syntactic structures. Finally, the relationship between syntactic, morphological, and phonological constituents within wordlike elements is explored.
Clitics in the wild
Title | Clitics in the wild PDF eBook |
Author | Zrinka Kolaković |
Publisher | Language Science Press |
Pages | 484 |
Release | |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 3961103364 |
This collective monograph is the first data-oriented, empirical in-depth study of the system of clitics on Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian. It fills the gap between the theoretical and normative literature by including solid data on variation found in dialects and spoken language and obtained from massive Web Corpora and speakers’ acceptability judgements. The authors investigate three primary sources of variation: inventory, placement and morphonological processes. A separate part of the book is dedicated to the phenomenon of clitic climbing, the major challenge for any syntactic theory. The theory of complexity serves as the explanation for the very diverse constraints on clitic climbing established in the empirical studies. It allows to construct a series of hierarchies where the factors relevant for predicting clitic climbing interact with each other. Thus, the study pushes our understanding of clitics away from fine-grained descriptions and syntactic generalisations towards a probabilistic modelling of syntax.
Aspects of the Theory of Clitics
Title | Aspects of the Theory of Clitics PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen R. Anderson |
Publisher | Oxford University Press on Demand |
Pages | 317 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780199279906 |
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, andsome of these - such as Kwakw'ala ("Kwakiutl) and Surmiran Rumantsch - are based on his own field research. The study of clitics has broad implications for a general understanding of sentence structure in natural language. 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.
Clitics
Title | Clitics PDF eBook |
Author | Joel Ashmore Nevis |
Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 1994-01-01 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9027237484 |
This bibliography provides an alphabetical listing of over 1500 articles, books, and dissertations that treat in some way the topic of clitics and related matters, e.g. affixes, words, word order, movement, sandhi, etc. The beginning point for the bibliographic entries is 1892, taking Jacob Wackernagel's classic work as the point of departure, and the entries cover the subsequent 100-year period. Each entury is accompanied by a series of descriptors which give an indication of the content of the item. Nearly one-third of the book is a detailed analytic index, based on the descriptors, which can aid in topical searches for relevant material. Prefatory matter includes an essay What is a Clitic? by Arnold M. Zwicky, a brief consideration of Wackernagel's scholarly career by Brian D. Joseph, and information on the format and use of the book itself.