A Handbook of Slavic Clitics (Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax)

Product Description 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 volume brings together the facts about clitics in the Slavic languages, where they have become a focal points of recent research. The authors draws relevant generalizations across the Slavic languages and highlight the importance of these phenomena for linguistic theory. About the Author Steven Franks, Professor and Chair, Department of Linguistics, Indiana University.