Spanish clitics

[Chiyo Nishida]

Dear Randy,
I have an article on the use of "se" as in Pedro se comió una manzana,
Pedro se sabe toda la lección, etc.  (The Spanish reflexive clitic se as an
aspectual class marker, Linguistics 32: 425-458). If you would like I will
send you a copy of my paper.  Also a student of mine is working on the use
of "se" as in Pedro se murió, Pedro ya se regresó de Guanajuato, etc.,
which appears with intransitive verbs. Mine and my student's deal with the
use of se that cannot be considered as a valency-reduction morpheme as
proposed in Grimshaw (92), etc.
Best,
Chiyo Nishida
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
University of Texas-Austin

>Dear All,
>
>Can someone suggest any references on the treatment of Spanish clitics?
>I'm particularly interested in "se" in all of its functions, as well as
>any ordering principles (like Perlmutter's output constraint on clitic
>ordering:  se II I III, referring to "se"<2nd person<1st person<3rd
>person. The reflexive use of "se" is straightforward, as in:
>   Se mataron. -> They killed themselves/each other.
>It's all the other uses of "se" that I'm curious about.
>
>Thanks for your suggestions.
>
>Randy Sharp
>University of British Columbia