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Lability in Hittite and Indo‐European: A Diachronic Perspective
Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.ABSTRACT Lability is defined as the possibility of a verb to enter a valency alternation without undergoing any change in its form. Labile verbs were common in ancient Indo‐European languages, including Hittite, which mostly features anticausative lability, with reflexive and reciprocal lability being less prominent.
Guglielmo Inglese
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On the acquisition of clitic placement in restructuring
IsoglossThis study investigates the production of clitic pronouns by monolingual Italian children aged 4;9-10;11, using a sentence repetition task including sentences with one or two restructuring verbs.
Anna Cardinaletti +2 more
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Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 1, January/February/March 2025.Abstract This study investigates the role of diglossic and orthographic features in reading comprehension in Arabic. Specifically, it probes the independent contribution of language, metalinguistic, and decoding skills in the spoken language and in Standard Arabic to reading comprehension in the abjad writing system of Arabic.
Elinor Saiegh‐Haddad, Rachel Schiff
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On Coordination and Clitic Climbing in Spanish Auxiliary Verb Constructions
Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 2022 AbstractIn this work we analyse some aspects of the interaction between coordination and clitic climbing in Spanish sentences with auxiliary verbs. We aim at shedding light on three kinds of structures, or ‘scenarios’: (1) those in which we find coordinated auxiliaries taking a single lexical verb as complement (Puede y debe hacerlo); (2) those in ...
Krivochen, DG, García Fernández, L
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Auxiliary selection in Italian restructuring: An insight into the size of the clause
Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 1, Page 85-122, March 2024.Abstract In Standard Italian, restructuring clauses are characterized by apparently optional transparency effects in the choice of the clausal perfect auxiliary. In the perfect periphrasis, the auxiliary associated with the modal verb can be either HAVE or the one corresponding to the lexical verb (BE or HAVE).
Irene Amato
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Control, restructuring and temporal interpretation
IsoglossIn this paper, we investigate whether there is a correlation between the temporal properties of control verbs and the possibility of restructuring with obligatory control predicates, taking clitic climbing as a diagnostic for restructuring.
Alexandra Fiéis, Ana Madeira
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Infinitive fronting as a transparency effect in Old and Middle French
IsoglossIn this article, we present a novel analysis of infinitive fronting in Old and Middle French (9th-16th century). We find that in sentences with modal verbs and clitic climbing, the infinitive may either follow the main verb or precede it.
Marc Olivier +2 more
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Complementizer drop and clitic climbing in Torlakian: Evidence from the Timok variety
Balcania et SlaviaThe paper is based on a corpus study of the complementizer da drop (Comp_drop) and clitic climbing (CC) in the Timok variety of Serbian. Data are taken from the Spoken Torlak dialect corpus 1.0 (Vuković 2020) and comprise over 900 examples of ...
Miric, Mirjana
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Croatian Church Slavonic Clausal Complements and the Implicational Complementation Hierarchy
Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i JezikoslovljeIn this paper, complement clauses in Croatian Church Slavonic (CCS) are examined in light of the implicational complementation hierarchy (ICH) proposed by Susanne Wurmbrand and Magdalena Lohninger (2023).
Josip Galić
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Microvariation in the second form of the infinitive in Campania
IsoglossCampanian dialects such as Neapolitan feature a so-called ‘second form of the infinitive’ (SFI), a form consisting of the bare verbal stem, which can be used after functional verbs.
Kim Groothuis, Mirella De Sisto
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