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Expressing Modality by Recycling Clitics [PDF]
, 1996 This paper tries to interpret the role of certain clitics attached to functional categories located over AgrS. They seem to be in charge of the expression of the modal orientation of the sentence.
Longa, Víctor M. +2 more
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Geminates and Picard Pronominal Clitic Allomorphy [PDF]
, 2005 In this paper, we examine five pronominal clitics in Vimeu Picard with a geminate-consonant allomorph. Assuming a doubly-linked (non-moraic) representation of geminates, we attribute the four different patterns observed to four different underlying ...
Auger, Julie, José, Brian
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Gilaki reverse Ezafe: The two faces of a nominal linker
Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 2, Page 376-392, June 2024.Abstract This paper examines a nominal linker (known as reverse Ezafe) in the Caspian language Gilaki. It is shown that the nominal linker in Gilaki is in fact the realization of two different morphosyntactic elements with distinct properties. In doing so, we also highlight the differences between reverse Ezafe and Ezafe, found in Persian and other ...
Arsalan Kahnemuyipour +2 more
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Revisiting the Person Case Constraint in Czech [PDF]
, 2011 Linguistic
Gallo, Carlos Gómez +6 more
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Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.Abstract A'ingae (or Cofán, ISO 639‐3: con) is an indigenous language isolate spoken in northeast Ecuador and southern Colombia. This paper presents the first comprehensive overview of the A'ingae phonology, including descriptions of (i) the language's phonemic inventory, (ii) phonotactics and a number of related phonological rules, (iii) nasality and ...
Maksymilian Dąbkowski
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Optional Participial Agreement with direct Object Clitics in Catalan [PDF]
, 1995 This paper examines an optional phenomenon in a Catalan dialect, Barcelonian Catalan, that seems to be quite peculiar amongst the Romance languages. This phenomenon involves optional participial agreement with third person direct object clitics. In other
Muxí, Isabel
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Some Clitic Combinations in the Syntax of Romance [PDF]
, 2002 The purpose of this paper is to account for certain gaps in the syntactic distribution of certain combinations of clitics in varieties of Aragonese, Catalan, Occitan and Spanish.
Ordóñez, Francisco
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A typology of denominal verb formation strategies
Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 18, Issue 3, May/June 2024.Abstract This article aims to fill a gap in the typological literature by discussing the typology of overt denominal verb formation strategies, that is, morphosyntactic strategies other than conversion/zero‐derivation that are used to derive a verb from a nominal base.
Simone Mattiola, Andrea Sansò
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Structural Ambiguity and the Architecture of Language1
Studia Linguistica, Volume 78, Issue 1, Page 35-63, April 2024.Abstract This article investigates what structural ambiguity reveals about the architecture of language. It analyzes two basic types of structural ambiguity, constituent ambiguity and chain formation ambiguity, and illustrates with a small class of selected case studies how they interweave.
Jordi Fortuny
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Coordinate structure constraint: a-/a'- movement vs. clitic movement
Linguistica Brunensia, 2018 We discuss cases of apparent Coordinate Structure Constraint violations in Slovenian. We show that when two non-finite clauses are coordinated, clitics can front to the second position in the main clause from the first non-finite clause but not from the ...
Franc Lanko Marušič, Rok Žaucer
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