Co-occurrence Strength and Transitivity Effects on Spanish Clitic Case Variation With Reverse-Psychological Predicates [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 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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A Probabilistic and Syntactic Account of Variable Clitic Agreement in Spanish Double Object Constructions [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 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 Transitivity Index: Using Transitivity as a continuous measure to account for clitic case alternation in Spanish causative constructions. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 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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THE ROLE OF CLITIC DOUBLING IN THE INFORMATION STRUCTURE OF THE ALBANIAN LANGUAGE [PDF]
Езиков свят, 2023 This paper attempts to argue whether the repetition of the object or clitic doubling as a syntactic mechanism affects the encoding of the information structure in the Albanian language.
Qëndresa JAKUPI
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Glossa, 2022 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]
̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2020 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
Isogloss, 2023 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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Clitic dislocations and clitics in French and Greek
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2021 This article focuses on Clitic Left Dislocation of XPs in French and Greek. By examining the interpretive properties of these XPs, primarily reconstruction properties, it concludes that they have been displaced from their first merge position via movement into (sometimes) a succession of hierarchically organized middle-field positions first above vP ...
Angelopoulos, Nikolaos +1 more
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Clitic or Agreement Restriction in Santali: A Typological Analysis
Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 2020 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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Syncretism and ordering in the evolution of Catalan pronominal clitic clusters
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2022 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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