Clitics are grammatical elements that are treated as independent words in syntax but form a phonological unit with the word that precedes or follows it. This vo

Clitics, those “funny little words” like English contracted future tense and pluperfect tense/conditional mood markers (’ll and ’d) or French pronominal

Challenging Clitics deals with multiple sides of cliticisation from different theoretical frameworks and with data from a number of different languages. Unlike

This book is concerned with a number of central issues in the theory of clitics, a topic that has become much debated in recent years. Mainly written within a r

This book contains fourteen articles that reflect current ideas on the phonology, morphology, and syntax of clitics. It covers the forms and functions of clitic