Aspects of the Theory of Clitics

Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-927990-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, Band 11, 328 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics

This is the first book to cover the grammar of clitics from all points of view, including their phonology and syntax and relation to morphology. In the process, it deals with the relation of second position clitics to verb-second phenomena in Germanic and other languages, the grammar of contracted auxiliary verbs in English, noun incorporation constructions, and several other much discussed topics in grammar. Stephen Anderson includes analyses of a number of
particular languages, and some of these - such as Kwakw'ala ("Kwakiutl") and Surmiran Rumantsch - are based on his own field research. The study of clitics has broad implications for a general understanding of sentence structure in natural language. Stephen Anderson's clearly-written, wide-ranging, and
original account will be of wide interest to scholars and advanced students of phonology, morphology, and syntax.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anderson, Stephen R

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Phonetik, Phonologie, Prosodie

Über Autor(innen)

Stephen R. Anderson is Professor of Linguistics, Psychology and Cognitive Science at Yale University. He has previously taught at Harvard University, UCLA, Stanford, and The Johns Hopkins University. Among his other books are A-Morphous Morphology (1992), The Language Organ, co-authored by David Lightfoot (2002), and Doctor Dolittle's Delusion: Animals and the Uniqueness of Human Language (2004). He is a Fellow of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences, and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has held a Guggenheim Fellowship.