SPELLING OUT CLITICS IN KAMBERA

This paper presents a case study in the positional properties of a com plex set of clitics: the mood, pronominal, and clausal-aspect clitics in the Austronesian language Kambera. The clitics of this language may form a cluster of maximally Mine clitics. The positional properties o f the clitics can be distinguished into two distinct categories. (a) t he position of the clitic cluster as a whole with respect to its host, and (b) the position of the clitics within the cluster with reference to each other. The aim of this paper is to present an account of both these aspects of Kambera clitic placement. The placement of the clust er as a whole will be characterized syntactically, while the ordering of the clitics within the cluster has the characteristics of inflectio nal morphology. I argue that the placement of the Kambera clitics with respect to each other is the result neither of the syntactic manipula tion of terminal elements of functional categories, nor of lexical wor d-formation rules or position-class morphology, nor is it determined b y the phonological properties of the language alone. Instead, it is th e result of the morphological spell-out of morphosyntactic feature bun dles (Anderson 1992) at the end of the syntactic derivation, at the in terface between syntax and prosody: the postlexical level.