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Accusative clitics, null objects, and the object agreement cycle

2021
Conservative varieties of Modern Spanish exhibit clitic left-dislocation and accusative clitic doubling of pronominal objects. Clitic left-dislocation occurs in Old Spanish but accusative clitic doubling first appears in the fifteenth century, becoming regular in the sixteenth century.
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Production and comprehension of grammatical gender by Spanish heritage speakers: Evidence from accusative clitic pronouns

International Journal of Bilingualism, 2022
Objectives: This study investigates (a) the accuracy of Heritage Speakers (HSs) in production and comprehension of Spanish clitic pronouns when compared to monolingual children, (b) the differences in error patterns between groups, and (c) the possible asymmetry in production and comprehension in gender clitics.
Lourdes Martinez-Nieto   +1 more
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Variation in accusative clitic doubling across three Spanish dialects

Lingua, 2014
Abstract In this paper, an account of the differences between three varieties of Spanish with accusative clitic doubling is proposed. The dialects studied are: Andean, Buenos Aires and Lima Spanish. Buenos Aires and Lima Spanish are varieties that express full agreement (i.e.
Pablo Zdrojewski, Liliana Sánchez
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Investigating the Secondary Effects of Processing Instruction in Spanish: From Instruction on Accusative Clitics to Transfer-of-Training Effects on Dative Clitics

Hispania, 2013
In this article, we examine whether the effectiveness of processing instruction (PI) is limited to forms targeted in the instructional treatment (primary effects) or whether it also extends to other forms (transfer-of-training effects). L2 Spanish learners (N = 123) received either PI or traditional instruction (TI) targeting third-person ...
Michael Leeser, Andrew DeMil
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The acquisition of accusative object clitics by IA children from China: Evidence of early age effects?

Journal of Child Language, 2013
ABSTRACTThe present study compared the performance of twenty-seven French-speaking internationally adopted (IA) children from China to that of twenty-seven monolingual non-adopted French-speaking children (CTL) matched for age, gender, and socioeconomic status on a Clitic Elicitation task.
Audrey, Delcenserie, Fred, Genesee
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Alternation between dative and accusative clitics in selected Spanish verbs

2022
A distinction of case is preserved in Spanish only in the paradigm of personal pronouns, where dative and accusative differ in third person singular (accusative: lo, la; dative: le) and plural (accusative: los, las; dative: les). These forms typically correspond to the direct and indirect object (accusative and dative, respectively) and are also ...
Mikelenić, Bojana, Bezlaj, Metka
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The Effect of Input-based Instruction Type on the Acquisition of Spanish Accusative Clitics

Hispania, 2015
The purpose of this paper is to compare structured input (SI) with other input-based instructional treatments. The input-based instructional types include: input flood (IF), text enhancement (TE), SI activities, and focused input (FI; SI without implicit negative feedback).
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From Romance clitics to case

2012
We reconstruct the notion of dative in terms of a Q(⊆) category, denoting an ‘inclusion’ relation – to be understood roughly as ‘possession’. In the light of this, we reconsider interactions between dative and 1st/2nd person in Romance. In Italian 3rd person clitics have two separate lexicalizations for accusative and dative, 1st/ 2nd person clitics ...
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