ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author considers Arnold M. Zwicky's taxonomy of clitics, the first attempt at trying to classify clitics across languages. She discusses some problems and inadequacies of his classificatory system. The author also discusses some comments on clitic typology from Eugene A. Nida, Ellen. Broselow, and Sue Steele. Zwicky is perhaps the first general survey which attempts to differentiate clitic types with respect to their various syntactic, morphological, and phonological properties. Zwicky distinguishes three types: simple clitics, special clitics and bound words. Broselow's data support the distinction of two types of languages, those which permit only cliticization onto adjacent elements, and those which combine movement and cliticization. Steele makes some tentative remarks comparing two analyses of the relationship between clitic pronouns and independent pronouns: A first hypothesis might be that clitic pronouns are the synchronic reductions of otherwise free independent forms.
