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

    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 parameters. This title will be of interest to students of phonetics and phonology.

    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.