Clitics: an introduction
by Spencer, Andrew, Luis, Ana R.
fromCambridge textbooks in linguistics
by Spencer, Andrew, Luis, Ana R.
fromCambridge textbooks in linguistics
This book offers a new contribution to the debate concerning the "real time acquisition" of grammar in First Language Acquisition Theory. It combines detailed and quantitative observations of object placement in Dutch and Italian child language with an analysis that makes use of…
In this volume, the relationship between clitics and affixes and their combinatorial properties has led to a serious discussion of the interface between syntax, morphology, semantics, and phonology that draws on a variety of theoretical perspectives (e.g., HPSG, Optimality Theor…