In most languages we find'little words' which resemble a full word, but which cannot stand on
their own. Instead they have to'lean on'a neighbouring word, like the'd,'ve and …

The first book to cover the grammar of clitics from all points of view, including their
phonology, morphology, and syntax, and the first comprehensive survey of clitic phenomena …

This dissertation develops a novel theory of the kind of agreement that has come to be
known as (nominal) concord, traditionally described as obtaining between a noun and its …

Focusing primarily on Swedish, a Germanic language whose particles have not previously
been studied extensively, Non-Projecting Words: A Case Study on Swedish Particles …

Agreement is approached from the analytical decisions required for constructing a
typological database. The Surrey Database of Agreement provides detailed, highly …

A clear introduction to lexical-functional grammar (LFG), this outstanding textbook sets out a
formal approach to the study of language using a step-by-step approach and rich language …

Verb-initial ordering may be derived by fronting the VP (or a larger constituent) to a specifier
position higher than the subject. For VSO languages, this analysis requires that the object …

One of the two object cases in Finnish, the accusative, has three variants. One of these is a
pronoun form similar to the English accusative. The choice between the remaining two forms …

In Norwegian, possessive pronouns can be prenominal (min bil'my car') or postnominal
(bilen min'car. DEF my'). In the Principles and Parameters literature, the standard …

Finnish belongs to the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic languages, its closest relatives being
the Baltic-Finnic languages Estonian, Karelian, Veps, Ingrian, Votic (Votian), Ludian, and …