Serbian Clitics

Clitics, those “funny little words” like English contracted future tense and pluperfect tense/conditional mood markers ( ’ll and ’d ) or French pronominal objects ( le ‘him’, la ‘her’, lui ‘to him/her’, etc.), have long been a source of fascination for linguists. Lacking an inherent stress that characterizes “well-behaved” words, clitics prosodically depend on a stressed sentence element, called their host , which makes them look and, in some contexts, behave like affixes (parts of words). Some