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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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Challenging Clitics

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In Old French, all clitic clusters containing objects observed the order ACC-DAT. During the 15th and 16th centuries this order was changed into DAT-ACC in cases where objects of the 1st and 2nd person were involved.
Helland, Hans Petter.   +1 more
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Is structural priming a possible mechanism of language change in heritage language grammars? Some evidence from accusative clitic doubling in Spanish

open access: yesBilingualism: Language and Cognition
AbstractThe language of heritage speakers is characterized by variability and structural innovations compared to the baseline grammar of first-generation immigrants. Although many factors contribute to these differences, this study considers structural priming with structures that do not exist in the majority language as a potential mechanism for ...
Irati Hurtado, Silvina Montrul
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Third person accusative clitic pronouns as object agreement marks in Brazilian Portuguese

open access: yesRevista Diadorim
Even though Brazilian Portuguese (BP) has replaced its third person accusative clitic pronouns (ClA3) for strong pronouns, they have not completely disappeared: although they are not acquired during the first years of BP native speakers’ linguistic development, they are a topic taught in Brazil classrooms.
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The lexical interface: closed class items in south Slavic and English [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
This thesis argues for a minimalist theory of dual lexicalization. It presents a unified analysis of South Slavic and English auxiliaries and accounts for the distribution of South Slavic clitic clusters.
Caink, Andrew David
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Expressing Modality by Recycling Clitics [PDF]

open access: yes, 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.
Lorenzo, Guillermo   +2 more
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Constelación de cambios en torno a la categoría objeto indirecto en el español del siglo XVIII Triggering changes in the grammaticalization of the Indirect Object in 18th century Spanish

open access: yesCuadernos Dieciochistas, 2013
El objetivo de este trabajo es arrojar nueva luz sobre diversos cambios interrelacionados en la lengua española especialmente activos durante el siglo XVIII concentrados todos ellos alrededor del objeto indirecto.
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