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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Language: | English |
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University of Kansas, Department of Linguistics
1990-01-01
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Series: | Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics |
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/432 |