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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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LA STRUCTURE FORMÉE DU VERBE "A VREA" ‘VOULOIR’ ET DE L’INFINITIF EN ROUMAIN
Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2020 The Structure Made of the Verb a vrea “want” and the Infinitive in Romanian. Based on a corpus containing old language texts as well as texts illustrating the regional varieties of Modern Romanian, the present article brings forth the peculiarities ...
Isabela NEDELCU
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Clitic Climbing, the Raising-Control Dichotomy and Diaphasic Variation in Croatian
Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2019 In the paper, we discuss the phenomenon of clitic climbing (CC) out of infinitive complements in contemporary Croatian. Based on the first theoretical work and some empirical findings on CC in Czech and Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian (BCS) and the ...
Zrinka Kolaković +2 more
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Pronoun clitics and sentential negation in Portuguese: some elements for grammar description
Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa, 2014 In this paper we intend to discuss about the relation between pronoun clitics and sentential negation (NEG) in Portuguese. Wherefore we resume some issues about the Portuguese syntax history trying to find clues that help us understand the nature of the ...
Cristiane Namiuti , Carlos Mioto
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PARTICULAR FEATURES OF ISTRO-ROMANIAN PRONOMINAL CLITICS
Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2020 Particular Features of Istro-Romanian Pronominal Clitics. Istro-Romanian is a ‘historical dialect’ of Romanian, a severely endangered linguistic variety, spoken in the Istrian peninsula (Croatia) as an endogenous language, and in USA and Canada as an ...
Adina DRAGOMIRESCU, Alexandru NICOLAE
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Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa, 2014 In this paper we revisit the hypothesis according to which Brazilian Portuguese is formed by two trends – the cultured norm and the vernacular or popular norm – with focus on the problem of the position and placement of pronominal clitics in complex ...
Aroldo Leal de Andrade +1 more
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A Usage-Based Perspective on Spanish Variable Clitic Placement
Languages, 2020 This study provides a usage-based analysis of Spanish Variable Clitic Placement (VCP). A variationist analysis of VCP in spoken Argentine Spanish indicates that VCP grammar is constrained by lexical (finite verb) and semantic (animacy) factors ...
Pablo E. Requena
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Clitic climbing in Spanish imperatives [PDF]
, 2007 In Spanish, the aspectual verbs ‘come’ and ‘go’ allow an object clitic to climb out of their infinitival complement in finite and infinitival contexts but not in simple imperatives. This paper argues that the ban on clitic climbing in simple imperatives with aspectual ‘come’ and ‘go’ (not noted in the literature before) can be related to the (likewise ...
Marcel den Dikken, Mariví Blasco
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Italiano LinguaDue, 2017 L’articolo si sofferma sulle tendenze evolutive manifestate dall’italiano negli ultimi decenni, in particolare in relazione alle possibilità offerte e ai bisogni indotti dalle nuove tecnologie.
Massimo Prada
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 2, Page 314-356, July 2026.Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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