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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Grammatical Object Passives in Yucatec Spanish
LanguagesYucatec Spanish displays a type of sentence that appears to mix elements of an active impersonal and a passive. For example, “te castigaron por mi tío” may be interpreted as “you were punished by my uncle”, where a by-phrase headed by the preposition por
Grant Armstrong
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Subject clitics and clitic recycling: locative sentences in some Iberian Romance languages
, 1998 The first concern of this article is an analysis of locative sentences in the Iberian Romances. It is argued that both the existential (〈HAVE〉) and the stative (〈BE〉) construction derive from a single abstract verb.
GUILLERMO LORENZO +2 more
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Subject clitic variation in a northern Italian dialect [PDF]
, 2010 PhDThis study investigates the phenomenon of subject clitic (henceforth, SCl) variation in Ligurian, a variety spoken in the north-west of Italy. Through the examination of empirical data, this work shows that variation can be incorporated in the theory ...
Ciarlo, Chiara
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The syntax of clitics in idiomatic and other fixed expressions
, 2002 In response to Modern Greek (MGr) and Romance languages' studies focusing primarily on argument-related clitic (doubling) constructions (Anagnostopoulou, 1997, 1999; Drachman, 1997; Kalluli, 2000; Terzi, 1999; and Heap and Roberge, 2001; Herschenson ...
Bibis, Nick
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 3, Page 356-365, November 2024.
David Langslow
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The distribution of clitics in L1 Italian: A person split approach
, 2015 Clitics are pronominal elements that agree in gender and number with a neighboring Noun Phrase (NP). Clitics bear direct or oblique case (accusative and dative respectively) in Italian.
Bellucci, Giulia +3 more
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Spanish Accusative Clitics: Latino Dual Language Learners in an English Environment [PDF]
, 2012 : Spanish-speaking (SS) dual language learners (DLLs) have shown differential developmental profiles of the native language (L1). The current study examined whether or not the Spanish acquisition profile, specifically accusative clitics, in predominantly
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The Transitivity Index: Using Transitivity as a continuous measure to account for clitic case alternation in Spanish causative constructions. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2021 Guajardo G.
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A Preliminary Examination of the Impact of Working Memory Training on Syntax and Processing Speed in Children with ASD. [PDF]
J Autism Dev Disord, 2022 Delage H +3 more
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