Tim Zingler
List of John Benjamins publications in which Tim Zingler is involved.
Article
2026 The size of clitics and affixes: A phonological approach to the grammaticalization cline Studies in Language 50:2, pp. 352–395 | Article
The grammaticalization cline predicts that clitics should be longer than affixes. This work tests this idea and also investigates whether clitics tend to be monosyllabic and whether proclitics and enclitics differ in length. Clitics are defined as items that are part of larger phonological words… read more