Clitics Spencer Andrew
Clitics Spencer Andrew In most languages we find 'little words' which resemble a full word, but which cannot stand on their own. These are clitics, and they are found in most of the world's…
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Clitics Spencer Andrew
In most languages we find 'little words' which resemble a full word, but which cannot stand on their own. These are clitics, and they are found in most of the world's languages. Instead they have to 'lean on' a neighbouring word, like the 'd, 've and unstressed 'em of Kim'd've helped'em ('Kim would have helped them').
This book is the first introduction to clitics, providing a complete summary of their properties, their uses, the reasons why they are of interest to linguists and the various theoretical approaches that have been proposed for them. In English the clitic forms appear in the same place in the sentence that the full form of the word would appear in but in many languages clitics obey quite separate rules of placement. The book describes a whole host of clitic systems and presents data from over 100
Clitics Spencer Andrew
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