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Acquisition of Pronominal Clitics in Romanian
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2006 This paper uses new evidence from elicited production experiments to establish that Romanian children do not omit either direct or indirect object clitics at a significant rate.
Maria Babyonyshev, Stefania Marin
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The Syntactic Status of Subject Clitics: A Problem from Venetan SE‐Constructions
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This article reopens the discussion on the syntax of subject clitics (SCLs) in Venetan dialects by providing a problematic piece of data and outlining its theoretical consequences. New evidence from se‐constructions in Alto Polesine Venetan (APV) shows that SCLs resist a unitary categorisation even within the same dialect group: in varieties ...
Marco Fioratti, Leonardo Russo Cardona
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Neither agreement nor pronouns
IsoglossBaker & Kramer (2018) suggests that the distribution of clitic doubling in Spanish follows from Weak Crossover. Thus, the fact that in accusative clitic doubling bare wh-phrases cannot be doubled (e.g., *¿A quién lo viste?
Andrés Saab
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The Representation of Third Person and Its Consequences for Person-Case Effects [PDF]
, 2007 In modeling the effects of the Person-Case Constraint (PCC), a common claim is that 3rd person “is not a person”. However, while this claim does work in the syntax, it creates problems in the morphology.
Nevins, Andrew
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2013 This paper has a twofold aim: to present a unified analysis of ditransitive constructions and transitivity alternations (dative/accusative alternations) in Spanish.
Anna Pineda
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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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Theoretical Implications of Object Clitic Omission in Early French : spontaneous vs. Elicited Production [PDF]
, 2006 This article examines the phenomenon of object clitic omission in French. Previous research contains contradictory results depending on the source of the data: it seems that in spontaneous production children prefer DPs while in elicited production they ...
Pirvulescu, Mihaela
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Regressive transfer has been a subject that has not been extensively researched in the field of third language acquisition. This study aims to examine the extent to which a highly advanced knowledge of a third language (L3) affects the first language (L1) and the second language (L2) of early bilinguals in light of the Differential Stability ...
Maddi Alkain Arizmendi +2 more
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Apie lietuvių senųjų raštų atoninę įvardžio formą te ‘tave’
Baltistica, 2011 ABOUT THE ATONIC FORM OF 2 SG. ACC. te IN THE OLD LITHUANIAN TEXTSSummaryIn the old Lithuanian texts the atonic form gen., dat., acc. m(i), t(i) (Zinkevičius 1981, 49) is also used alongside the orthotonic genitive, dative and accusative forms of the ...
Auksė Razanovaitė
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