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.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. What is a Clitic? ; 3. The Phonology of Cliticization ; 4. Special Clitics and Their Grammar ; 5. Theories of Special Clitics ; 6. An Optimal Theory of Clitic Positioning ; 7. Verb Second as Alignment ; 8. Pronominal Clitics ; 9. Clause Structure and the Grammar of Incorporation

undoubtedly one of the most important and valuable contributions to the study of clitics