Everett Daniel L. Why There Are No Clitics: An Alternative Perspective on Pronominal Allomorphy

Summer Institute of Linguistics & University of Texas at Arlington, 1996. — xii, 188 p. — (Summer Institute of Linguistics and The University of Texas at Arlington, Publications in Linguistics 123; ISSN 1040-0850). — ISBN 1-55671-004-6.This book argues for the thesis that pronominal clitics, pronouns, and pronominal (agreement) affixes are allomoiphs of one another, derived from lexical storage of individual grammatical features, e.g., person, number, and gender (called pbi-features in some syntactic theories), which are then "spelled-out" as pronouns, affixes, or clitics, depending on how they are stacked, as well as where they are inserted. This study thus crucially assumes a separationist theory of morphology, whereby phonological realization and lexical insertion are separate steps.