Clitics: an introduction
by Spencer, Andrew, Luis, Ana R.
fromCambridge textbooks in linguistics
An introduction to clitics, providing a complete summary of their properties, their uses, and the reasons why they are of interest to linguists. The book describes a whole host of clitic systems and presents data from over 100 languages.
Clitics: an introduction
by Spencer, Andrew, Luis, Ana R.
fromCambridge textbooks in linguistics
The first introduction to clitics, providing a complete summary of their properties and their uses.
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…
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…
Biographical note: Maria Pilar Larranga, University of Braunschweig, Germany. Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom.
Traditional grammars have stated that clitics are subject or object pronouns whose distributional features make them different from personal pronouns. This book focuses on the acquisition of personal and demonstrative pronouns as well as clitics with respect to determinative phr…
