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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 +2 more
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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 +1 more
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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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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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Cadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos, 2016 Previous studies have reported that clitic interpolation and clitic climbing change according to three stages in the history of European Portuguese.
Aroldo Leal de Andrade +1 more
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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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Clitic climbing (or lack thereof) and the Copy Theory of Movement
Glossa, 2019 Based on consideration of understudied clitic-climbing facts from Spanish and other Romance varieties, I provide a new argument for Lower Copy Pronunciation within the Copy Theory of Movement.
Julio Villa-García
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