The Motivated Syntax of Arbitrary Signs: Cognitive constraints on Spanish clitic clustering
Erica C. García
This detailed study challenges the claim that syntax is arbitrary and autonomous, as well as the assumption that Spanish clitic clusters constitute grammaticalized units. Diverse--apparently unrelated--restrictions on clitic clustering in both simplex VP's and Accusative cum Infinitive structures… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 61] 2009. xv, 335 pp.