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Co-occurrence Strength and Transitivity Effects on Spanish Clitic Case Variation With Reverse-Psychological Predicates [PDF]
Although the most frequent psychological predicates in Spanish require the third-person clitic experiencer to appear in dative case, there is a well-known subclass of predicates for which the case of the clitic alternates between accusative and dative ...
Gustavo Guajardo
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The Transitivity Index: Using Transitivity as a continuous measure to account for clitic case alternation in Spanish causative constructions. [PDF]
In Spanish causative constructions with dejar 'let' and hacer 'make' the subject of the embedded infinitive verb can appear in the accusative or the dative case.
Gustavo Guajardo
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A Probabilistic and Syntactic Account of Variable Clitic Agreement in Spanish Double Object Constructions [PDF]
In Spanish clitic-doubling constructions, the clitic should agree in number with its coreferential doubled noun phrase. However, the present corpus analysis with data from 21 Spanish varieties reveals that, under certain structural configurations, number
Gustavo Guajardo
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The current study examines the production of object clitic pronouns among Chinese/Spanish bilinguals via an elicited narrative task. A total of 11 simultaneous bilinguals, 10 sequential bilinguals from Peru and 21 Chinese-speaking L2 learners from China ...
Alejandro Cuza, Jian Jiao
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Clitic Doubling and Dislocation of Direct Object based on Evidence from Kalhori Kurdish [PDF]
The present study aimed at investigating clitic doubling in Kalhori Kurdish. The implications of clitic doubling for Kurdish syntax were also investigated.
Sara Ahmadi, Habib Gohari
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Diachronic change and variation in use
Previous studies have demonstrated that in spontaneous speech, Rioplatense Spanish speakers—in contrast to speakers of Peninsular Spanish—sometimes produce clitic-doubled accusative nominal objects.
Esther Rinke +2 more
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Syncretism and ordering in the evolution of Catalan pronominal clitic clusters
This paper examines the 3rd person clitic combinations found in a digital corpus of Catalan texts dating from the 11th century to the first half of the 18th (the CICA) and attempts to clarify the origin of the current clitic system of colloquial ...
Teresa Cabré
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The study offers novel evidence on the grammar and processing of clitic placement in heritage languages. Building on earlier findings of divergent clitic placement in heritage European Portuguese and Serbian, this study extends this line of inquiry to ...
Tanya Ivanova-Sullivan +3 more
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Clitic or Agreement Restriction in Santali: A Typological Analysis
This paper investigates the syntactic configuration of pronominal number marking in Santali. Syntactic, morphological and prosodic restrictions show that pronominal number markers have properties of an affix as well as a clitic. A marker is an affix due
Mayuri J. DILIP, Rajesh KUMAR
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Reverse transfer in clitic collocation a study on Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese
This study focuses on reverse transfer, L2 influences on L1, with L1 as the dominant language. It investigates clitic collocation in complex verb phrases, contrasting Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and Spanish.
Thamyres Ribeiro da Silva Ramos +1 more
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