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The Acceptability Of Clitic And Tonic Accusative 3rd Person Pronouns In Written Brazilian Portuguese

open access: yesDiadorim: revista de estudos linguísticos e literários, 2017
Com base na Teoria de Princípios e Parâmetros (CHOMSKY, 1995), apresento uma análise diacrônica das interrogativas-Q do Português Europeu (PE) seguida de uma comparação com as mesmas estruturas no Português Brasileiro (PB). Paralelamente, faço uma breve análise dos padrões de interrogativas-Q em entrevistas sociolinguísticas gravadas em dois momentos ...
Cândido Samuel Fonseca De Oliveira   +1 more
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Some conceptual and empirical issues in linguistic theory : an illustration with pronominal clitics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
I would like to discuss a few general conceptual issues in linguistic theory, and see how they bear on some empirical facts about pronominal clitics. In particular, I would like to show that the conception of linguistic theory, justified on independent ...
Law, Paul
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How Flexible Are Grammars Past Puberty? The Case of Relative Clauses in Turkish‐American Returnees

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract How flexible are grammars after puberty? To answer this, we test returnees: heritage speakers (HS) born in an immigration context who returned to their homeland in later years. If returnees are targetlike, then language is still malleable after puberty; in contrast, if maturational effects are in play, postpuberty returnees will show ...
Aylin Coşkun Kunduz, Silvina Montrul
wiley   +1 more source

L2 Spanish clitics among Brazilian Portuguese-speaking learners: the predictive role of lexical knowledge

open access: yesGlossa
We examined the acquisition of third-person accusative clitics (e.g., lo, la, los, las) in L2 Spanish among Brazilian Portuguese (BP) speakers. In BP, the animacy of the referent is the main feature constraining accusative pronoun use while, in Spanish ...
Abril Jimenez   +2 more
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Élargissement de la valence verbale — Les verbes causatifs et semi-causatifs et le problème de la pronominalisation des compléments argumentaux // The widering of the verbal valence — the causative and semi-causative verbs and the problem of argument pronominalization [PDF]

open access: yesSvět Literatury, 2015
The causative and semi-causative periphrases represent a syntactic context in the framework of which the valence of a predicate is modified. Its redefinition generates new stematics by fusionning two autonomous argumental structures. For each causative
Jiří Jančík
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Lability in Hittite and Indo‐European: A Diachronic Perspective

open access: yesStudia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Lability is defined as the possibility of a verb to enter a valency alternation without undergoing any change in its form. Labile verbs were common in ancient Indo‐European languages, including Hittite, which mostly features anticausative lability, with reflexive and reciprocal lability being less prominent.
Guglielmo Inglese
wiley   +1 more source

Clitic Climbing and Null Subject Languages [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
The aim of this paper is to derive Clitic Climbing from restructuring together with the Null Subject property. Data are drawn mainly from Catalan. I propose a biclausal analysis for restructuring constructions in which clitic climbing (like any clitic ...
Solà i Pujols, Jaume
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ReChat: A Task‐Based Chatbot for EV Charging Management Optimization

open access: yesIET Intelligent Transport Systems, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/December 2026.
ReChat is a multilingual task‐based chatbot for EV charging management, combining supervised intent classification with a deterministic and safe task‐to‐action mapping. Experiments on six languages and an end‐to‐end Telegram prototype validate its monitoring and control capabilities.
Pablo Donate   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The split-S system and the source of the absolutive case in Tenetehára

open access: yesRevista Linguística, 2017
The main goal of this paper is to investigate the split-S system in Tenetehára. I propose that the A and Sa subjects are cross-referenced by means of the same set of prefixes in root eventive clauses, whereas O and So are encoded by the absolutive ...
Fábio Bonfm Duarte
doaj   +1 more source

On the Marginal Functions and Features of Object Clitics, with Special Reference to Modern Greek [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Dans Ie cadre du programme minimaliste (Chomsky 1995), nous étudions la nature des rôles θ dans trois constructions impliquant des clitiques objets : en grec moderne, l’accusatif affecté et l’accusatif idiomatique; en français et en grec moderne, le ...
Bibis, Nick
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