[Lingtyp] Keystone literature on clitic vs suffix distinction

bingfu Lu lubingfu at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 11 00:07:32 UTC 2018


 My understanding is that: a suffix attaches a word, but a clitic attaches a phrase. For example, -s in He works hard is a suffix while 's in The king of England's is a clitic.  Please correct my naive understanding.
Bingfu LuThe Institute of Linguistic Typology,Nachang University.

    On ‎Wednesday‎, ‎April‎ ‎11‎, ‎2018‎ ‎07‎:‎52‎:‎45‎ ‎AM‎ ‎CST, David Inman <davinman at uw.edu> wrote:  
 
 Thanks to everyone who replied to me. For others looking into the phenomenon, here is a list of the most-recommended papers:
Zwicky and Pullum. 1983. Cliticization vs. Inflection: English n't
Haspelmath, Martin. 2011. Indeterminacy of word segmentation
Bermúdez-Otero, Ricardo, and John Payne. 2011. There are no special clitics.
Spencer, A. and Luís, A. 2012. The canonical clitic, chapter form Canonical morphology and syntax.
Haspelmath, Martin. 2015. Defining vs. diagnosing linguistic categories: A case study of clitic phenomena.
Tallman, Adam. 2017. There are no special clitics in Chácobo (Pano)


David InmanPhD CandidateUniversity of Washington Linguistics
On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 12:38 PM, David Inman <davinman at uw.edu> wrote:

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?

David InmanPhD CandidateUniversity of Washington Linguistics

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