Cliticization as prosodic integration: The case of Dutch

Abstract

In this paper it is argued that the phonological behavior of clitics should not be accounted f or by assuming a special prosodie category "Clitic Group ".Clitics are integrated into the preceding or the following prosodie word.As far as Dutch is concerned, it appears that proclitics behave like prefixes, and are Chomskyadjoined to the following prosodie word, whereas enclitics behave like suffixes, and form part of the last foot of the preceding prosodie word.In most cases, there is a general preference for leftward cliticization