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<div>My understanding is that: a suffix attaches a word, but a clitic attaches a phrase. For example, -s in <i>He works hard</i> is a suffix while 's in The king of England's is a clitic. Please correct my naive understanding.</div><div><br></div><div>Bingfu Lu</div><div>The Institute of Linguistic Typology,</div><div>Nachang University.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Wednesday, April 11, 2018 07:52:45 AM CST, David Inman <davinman@uw.edu> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydp4376a966yiv8425974347"><div dir="ltr">Thanks to everyone who replied to me. For others looking into the phenomenon, here is a list of the most-recommended papers:<div><br></div><div><div>Zwicky and Pullum. 1983. Cliticization vs. Inflection: English n't</div><div><br></div><div>Haspelmath, Martin. 2011. Indeterminacy of word segmentation</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline;">Bermúdez-Otero, Ricardo, and John Payne. 2011. There are no special clitics.<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-color:initial;"><br class="ydp4376a966yiv8425974347gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">Spencer, A. and Luís, A. 2012. The canonical clitic, chapter form Canonical morphology and syntax.</div></span></div><div><br></div><div>Haspelmath, Martin. 2015. Defining vs. diagnosing linguistic categories: A case study of clitic phenomena.</div><div><br></div><div>Tallman, Adam. 2017. There are no special clitics in Chácobo (Pano)</div></div><div><br></div></div><div class="ydp4376a966yiv8425974347gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="ydp4376a966yiv8425974347gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small;"><br></div><div style="font-size:small;">David Inman</div><div style="font-size:small;">PhD Candidate</div><div style="font-size:small;">University of Washington Linguistics</div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="ydp4376a966yiv8425974347gmail_quote">On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 12:38 PM, David Inman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davinman@uw.edu" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">davinman@uw.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="ydp4376a966yiv8425974347gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div dir="ltr">I am working on a paper that is related to the distinction between affixes and clitics and want to make sure I have covered the key literature. What are the cornerstones covering the clitic/affix distinction that folks would recommend I start with?<span class="ydp4376a966yiv8425974347HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><div class="ydp4376a966yiv8425974347m_9143957113778752699gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div class="ydp4376a966yiv8425974347m_9143957113778752699gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small;"><br></div><div style="font-size:small;">David Inman</div><div style="font-size:small;">PhD Candidate</div><div style="font-size:small;">University of Washington Linguistics</div></div></div></div></div></div>
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