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Generalized Phasal Defectivity in Brazilian Portuguese
Isogloss, 2022 Brazilian Portuguese displays a cluster of apparently unrelated properties that set it aside within Romance. On the one hand, it has lost its third person possessive pronouns (cf. Oliveira e Silva 1985, Perini 1985, Cerqueira 1996, and Müller 1996), its
Jairo Nunes
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From hierarchies to features : person splits and direct-inverse alternations [PDF]
, 2008 In the recent literature there is growing interest in the morpho-syntactic encoding of hierarchical effects. The paper investigates one domain where such effects are attested: ergative splits conditioned by person. This type of splits is then compared to
Alexiadou, Artemis +1 more
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Investigating clitics in adult L2 Greek
, 2023 We investigated the role of uninterpretable features (Chomsky 1995) in L2 Greek clitics. Oral production data were obtained from 65 adults who were divided into three L1 groups, Albanian, English and Georgian. The L1s under investigation differ from each
Danavassi, Terpsi, Agathopoulou, Eleni
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Systems of pronominal enclitics in old russian language of 14th and 15th centuries (with testaments and treaties of princes of North-Eastern Rus’) [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология, 2018 The Standard Russian language has completely lost the system of pronominal enclitics, but it did exist in Old Russian. This article deals with systems of pronominal enclitics attested in testaments and treaties of princes of North-Eastern Rus’.
Ksenia Doikina
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Autism and Developmental Language Impairments, 2018 Background and aims Impaired production of third person accusative pronominal clitics is a signature of language impairment in French-speaking children.
Philippe Prévost +5 more
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Languages, 2018 It has been widely argued that morphological competence, particularly functional morphology, represents the bottleneck of second language acquisition (Jensen et al. 2017; Lardiere 1998, 2005; Slabakova 2008, 2009, 2013).
Liliana Sánchez, Elisabeth Mayer
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Agreement System in Khāniki Language [PDF]
̒Ilm-i ZabānThe main purpose of this study is providing a grammatical description of the agreement system in Khāniki language, based on empirical data. This variant belongs to South-Western Iranian languages.
Saeed Labbafan
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Ultimate attainment in heritage language speakers: Syntactic and morphological knowledge of Italian accusative clitics [PDF]
Applied Psycholinguistics, 2020 AbstractThe acquisition of a heritage language, normally the weaker language of early bilinguals, has been oftentimes defined as incomplete, especially for morphosyntax. As a result, these early bilinguals resemble late bilinguals more than native language speakers, calling into question the role of age of exposure.
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Dynamic Syntax and dialogue modelling: preliminaries for a dialogue-driven account of syntactic change [PDF]
, 2006 This paper sets out an account of grammaticalization in the framework of Dynamic Syntax (DS) in which the emergence of object clitics in Medieval Spanish and the change in their syntactic positioning in Renaissance Spanish are shown to be driven by ...
Ruth M. Kempson +3 more
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Clitic doubling of the proposed direct object in Bulgarian
Slavia Meridionalis, 2018 Clitic doubling of the proposed direct object in Bulgarian The presence or absence of accusative clitic doubling in Bulgarian clauses with direct object preposing serves grammatical or pragmatic purposes and falls within the discussion on word order ...
Bilyana Ovcharova
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