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litic Climbing and Null Subject Languages

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2002
The aim of this paper is to derive Clitic Climbing from restructuring together with the Null Subject property. Data are drawn mainly from Catalan. I propose a biclausal analysis for restructuring constructions in which clitic climbing (like any clitic ...
Jaume Solà
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Clitics that Don't Climb

Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2019
In this article the behavior of clitics in subject- versus object-control infinitival constructions is explained by arguing that the two constructions have different structures.
Martina Gračanin-Yuksek
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Variation and optionality in clitic climbing in Argentinean Spanish

Isogloss, 2015
Since Cinque’s (2006:31-32) four-way typology of languages in terms of clitic climbing (CC, herein), those in which CC displays optionality, such as Argentinean Spanish (ArgSp, herein), remain poorly understood. This paper aims to address this need. Here,
Ioanna Sitaridou, Helen Whimpanny, Laura Ayres   +2 more
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Clitic climbing and restructuring in the history of French

Glossa, 2023
This paper constitutes an empirical investigation into the diachrony of clitic climbing (and consequently restructuring) in French based on data from a novel corpus of legal texts, as well as a theoretical analysis of the loss of this phenomenon from the
Christina Sevdali, Marc Olivier, Raffaella Folli   +2 more
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When Moldovan meets Russian

Isogloss, 2023
This article offers an analysis of Moldovan complex predicates, focusing on the differences between structures with aspectuals and modals. It is shown that, under the influence of Russian, a minor pattern found in old Moldovan, whereby aspectuals and ...
Ștefania Costea
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Diachronie de la proclise et de l'enclise avec l'infinitif en français médiéval (12e-15e siècles)

Studia Linguistica Romanica, 2022
This paper presents a diachronic study of clitic placement with infinitives in Medieval French (dating from between the 12th and the 15th century). It particularly focuses on the phenomena of proclisis and enclisis.
Olivier, Marc
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When Restructuring and Clause Union Meet in Catalan and Beyond

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2022
This paper considers what happens when clause union meets restructuring by examining contexts where the causative FACERE verb takes a restructuring verb as its complement in Catalan, in comparison with French and Italian.
Anna Pineda, Michelle Sheehan
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Reverse transfer in clitic collocation a study on Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese

Diacrítica, 2019
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, Marina Rosa Ana Augusto   +1 more
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Clitic Climbing and Presuppositional Negative Markers in Occitano-Romance Verbal Complexes. Exploring the Crossroads of Micro-Syntactic Phenomena

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2023
In this paper we propose that verbal clusters with restructuring verbs contain a defective embedded clausal boundary. Additionally, this paper constitutes a methodological and empirical contribution to syntactic microvariation in Occitano-Romance ...
Ares Llop, Anna Paradís
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Modal particles in Albanian subjunctive, infinitive and supine constructions: presence vs absence of clitic climbing

Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2017
It is a well-known fact that the infinite/subjunctive substitution, attested in Balkan languages, correlates with possibility/impossibility of clitic climbing.
Giuseppina Turano
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