ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that the only potentially viable analysis is copying, and makes some comments on the requirements of an adequate copying analysis. It reviews different proposals with the aim of clarifying the types of problems clitics cause in syntactic and phonological theory. Among the analyses considered are: copying, migration, base-generation, subcategorization features, readjustment rules, Phonological Boundary Reduction, and metrical restructuring. Cliticization has been analyzed in various ways: as a strictly syntactic phenomenon, as a post-syntactic/pre-phonological process, as part of the morphological component of the grammar, and as a strictly phonological process. Functional structure assignment consists essentially of a device to match the requirement of the generated structure with the individual lexical items inserted in the structure. Each functional structure is subject to a set of well-formedness conditions. For cliticization, the important condition is consistency, which is satisfied if every grammatical feature of each grammatical unit has a unique value.
