Aspects of the Theory of Clitics

Clitics in dependency morphology

“…Clitics are morphs on the borderline between free and bound morphs (Zwicky 1977, 1985b, Klavans 1985, Kaisse 1985, Borer 1986, Nevis 1986, Anderson 1992, 2005, Halpern 1995, 1998, Halpern and Zwicky 1996, Gerlach 2002, Hudson 2007. Clitics express meanings usually reserved for free morphs, but fail -for whatever reasons -to appear as individual prosodic words.…”

A Corpus Analysis of Intra- and Extralinguistic Factors triggeringne-Deletion in Phonic French

“…The second one is a (morpho)syntactic approach, which consists mainly in the description of the special syntax of certain (pronominal) elements, which behave differently from NPs and disjunctive pronouns. Anderson (2005) adds that the syntactic dimension often, but not necessarily, coincides with the phonological one. This implicates, that syntactic clitics are often but not always stressless (cf.…”

“…The fact that the order of clitic pronouns (clitic-cluster) in declarative sentences differs from the order of lexical constituents expressing the same syntactic function is widely recognized (cf. the notion of special clitics, Zwicky, 1977, Anderson, 2005. Furthermore the syntactic constraints with regard to the order and co-occurrence of elements that occur in clitic-clusters have been described in detail (cf.…”

Warlpiri and the theory of second position clitics

“…This insertion may either be directly into the correct position, or at first into approximately the correct position, with subsequent mechanisms used to achieve correct placement. The analysis of clitic placement in the OptimalityTheory framework (Anderson 1995(Anderson , 1996(Anderson , 2000(Anderson , 2004(Anderson , 2005Legendre 1998Legendre , 1999Legendre , 2000a is of the former type. Clitics are inserted in a post-syntactic morphology into their surface position through ranked constraints specific to clitic placement.…”

“…Thus, each head suffixes to the dominating head, resulting in the C+(T)+Asp+AgrS+AgrO order. Phonologically, the clitics lack structure at the level of the phonological word (on such a prosodic deficiency for clitics see for example Berendsen 1986;Selkirk 1986Selkirk , 1995Zec 1988;Inkelas 1989;Anderson 2005, among others), although bimoraic clitics do exhibit foot structure (see the discussion of stress in Section 3 and the references cited therein).…”