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REFERENCES:
Zwicky, Arnold M. 1977. On clitics. Bloomington: Indiana University Linguistics Club.
Anderson, S. R. 2005. Aspects of the theory of Clitics. New York: Oxford University.
Palmer, F., Huddleston, R., & Pullum, G. 2002. Inflectional morphology and related matters. In R. Huddleston & G. Pullum (Authors), The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (pp. 1565-1620). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781316423530.019
Zwicky, Arnold M. 1994. What is a clitic? In Nevis, Joel A. & Joseph, Brian D. & Wanner, Dieter & Zwicky, Arnold M. (eds.), Clitics: a comprehensive bibliography 1892-1991, xii–xx. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
Pullum, G.K., & Zwicky, A.M. 1997. Licensing of prosodic features by syntactic rules: the key to auxiliary reduction.
Zwicky, A.M. 1970. Auxiliary Reduction in English. Linguistic Inquiry, 1(3), 323–336.
Traugott, Elizabeth Closs. 2003. ‘Constructions in grammaticalization.’ In Brian D. Joseph &
Richard D. Janda (eds.) The Handbook of Historical Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwel

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