To-contract or not to-contract? That is the question. Broadbent, J. M. & Sifaki, E. English Language and Linguistics, 17(03):513–535, November, 2013. doi abstract bibtex The focus of this article is what Anderson (2005: 72) describes as ‘another chronic puzzle in English’, the case of to-contraction. We set out to show that the extent and nature of to-contraction has not been captured by the literature to date, because researchers have been concerned with two forms which are no longer synchronic to-contractions: wanna and gonna, and have taken a syntactic or morphological approach. On the basis of new phonological data from British English varieties we argue that the reduction of /t/ in to should be taken as evidence of to-contraction. We claim that to is a phonological clitic and to-contraction is simply the incorporation of the clitic to into the preceding prosodic word.
@article{broadbent_-contract_2013,
title = {To-contract or not to-contract? {That} is the question},
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shorttitle = {To-contract or not to-contract?},
doi = {10.1017/S1360674313000142},
abstract = {The focus of this article is what Anderson (2005: 72) describes as ‘another chronic puzzle in English’, the case of to-contraction. We set out to show that the extent and nature of to-contraction has not been captured by the literature to date, because researchers have been concerned with two forms which are no longer synchronic to-contractions: wanna and gonna, and have taken a syntactic or morphological approach. On the basis of new phonological data from British English varieties we argue that the reduction of /t/ in to should be taken as evidence of to-contraction. We claim that to is a phonological clitic and to-contraction is simply the incorporation of the clitic to into the preceding prosodic word.},
number = {03},
urldate = {2016-07-08},
journal = {English Language and Linguistics},
author = {Broadbent, Judith M. and Sifaki, Evi},
month = nov,
year = {2013},
keywords = {Fixing to},
pages = {513--535},
}
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