Deals with multiple sides of cliticisation from different theoretical frameworks and with data from a number of different languages. This book also discusses the acquisition of clitics; the role of the PF in cliticisation; the morphophonological aspects of cliticisation; and historical change - to name but a few of the approaches presented.

1. Acknowledgements; 2. Why challenging clitics?: Some introductory remarks (by Meklenborg Salvesen, Christine); 3. Enclisis at the syntax-PF interface (by Mavrogiorgos, Marios); 4. Clisis revisited: Root and embedded contexts in Western Iberian (by Fernandez-Rubiera, Francisco Jose); 5. Handling Wolof clitics in LFG (by Bamba Dione, Cheikh); 6. Clitic placement and grammaticalization in Portuguese (by Sandalo, Filomena); 7. Diachronic source of two cliticization patterns in Slavic (by Migdalski, Krzysztof); 8. The Freezing Principle in Hungarian polarity, non-polarity and multiple wh-questions (by Dalmi, Grete); 9. Pronominal markers in Cajun French (by Girard, Francine Alice); 10. The morphosyntax of -nde and post-verbal clitics in Cypriot Greek (by Pavlou, Natalia); 11. Acquisition of Italian object clitics by a trilingual child: Acquisition of Italian object clitics (by Khachaturyan, Elizaveta); 12. Clitic clusters in early Italo-Romance and the syntax/phonology interface (by Pescarini, Diego); 13. Reflexive verbs and the restructuring of clitic clusters (by Meklenborg Salvesen, Christine); 14. Language index; 15. Subject index

Overall, the volume’s breadth of issues and methodologies is notable. The interdisciplinary, cutting-edge formal approaches to the interfaces at which clitics reside make it well worth the read for those interested in clitic phenomena. Despite its limitations from a functionalist point of view, this volume is successful in its goal of offering diverse perspectives on clitics cross-linguistically, and it is recommended for linguists who work on the theoretical side of the syntax-morphology interface.