Aspects of the Theory of Clitics

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

[an] important and much needed book ... This study will undoubtedly be a cornerstone in any future debates on this important topic.