A Cyclic Approach to Simple Cliticization

Abstract: A sentence such as “I am going to find the store” may be reduced to “I[ma] find the store.” This reduction consists of a reduction of the auxiliary, changing “I am” to “I'm,” and an adjunction of infinitival to onto going to derive “gonna.” From there, gonna” is reduced to produce the...

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Main Author: Huckabay, Hunter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Kansas, Department of Linguistics 1990-01-01
Series:Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1808/432