Abstract

In this paper the behavior of clitics in Shabaki a northwestern Indo-Iranian language spoken in Nineveh plains in Iraq is discussed in detail with respect to forms and distributions and much more interestingly with respect to sensitivity to Wackernagel s Law The paper also addresses clitic doubling clustering and climbing which may be considered the peculiar defining features of Shabaki They could be added to nouns pronouns verbs prepositions and other clitics Shabaki is a language with multiple cliticization and is surprisingly complicated with respect to this phenomenon It has an intricate system of clitics which include subject pronominal clitics object pronominal clitics dative and accusative possessive pronominal clitics demonstrative pronoun clitics ezafe clitics diminutive clitics additive clitics aspectual clitics tense clitics copular clitics and negative clitics