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Cliticization

MORPHOLOGY/SYNTAX: a process by which a complex word is formed by attaching a clitic to a fully inflected word. It is unclear whether cliticization is a type of word formation or a type of syntactic operation (incorporation). EXAMPLE: in Je t'aime, t' is the clitic attached to aime.
LIT. Klavans, J. (1985)
Klavans, J. (1982)
Nespor, M. and I. Vogel (1986)
Spencer, A. (1991)
Zwicky, A. (1977)
Zwicky, A. (1977)
Zwicky, A. and G. Pullum (1983)