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Title: Clitics in Phonology, Morphology and Syntax

Editors: Birgit Gerlach & Janet Grijzenhout

Series: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 36

Publisher: John Benjamins, Amsterdam; December 2000

Level: Specialized Editorial

Field: General linguistics / Clitics

ISBN: 1556197993, English, Hardcover, 441 pages

Publisher's Abstract:

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).

Table of Contents

1	Clitics from different perspectives	Birgit Gerlach and Janet Grijzenhout	1
2	The tonal phonology of Yoruba clitics	Akinbiyi Akinlabi and Mark Liberman	31
3	Adjective-clitic combinations in the Greek DP	Artemis Alexiadou and Melita Stavrou	63
4	Free clitics and bound affixes: Towards a unitary analysis	Gloria Cocchi	85
5	Clitics and coordination in linear structure	Berthold Crysmann	121
6	The acquisition of clitics and strong pronouns in Catalan	Linda Escobar and Anna Gavarró	161
7	The prosodic representation of clitics in Irish	Antony Dubach Green	181
8	Positioning Romanian verbal clitics at PF: An Optimality-Theoretic analysis	Géraldine Légendre	219
9	Clitic placement in the Romanian verbal complex	Paola Monachesi	255
10	Romanian definite articles are not clitics	Albert Ortmann and Alexandra Popescu	295
11	Clitics in the Srpske narodne pjesme	Donald Reindl and Steven L. Franks	325
12	Verbal clitics in Bulgarian: A Paradigm Function approach	Andrew Spencer	355
13	Operator clitics	Olga Mišeska Tomic	387
14	Doubling and possession	Juan Uriagereka	405

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Gerlach, Birgit & Janet Grijzenhout. 2000. Clitics in Phonology, Morphology and Syntax. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

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