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Parameter Hierarchies and Language Contact: The Present Perfect in Ecuadorian Spanish1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 2, Page 513-546, July 2026.
Abstract This article explores the hypothesis that the ‘fine‐grained’ grammatical differences that adult grammars under contact are said to be sensitive to (e.g., Hicks et al. 2023) amount to micro/nanoparametric distinctions, in the sense of Roberts (2019).
Norma Schifano
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On the acquisition of clitic placement in restructuring

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This 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, Sara Cerutti, Francesca Volpato   +2 more
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Clitic climbing revisited

Proceedings of the International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, 2003
Presently, there is overall consent among researchers on Romance in HPSG (Miller and Sag, 1997, Abeillé et al., 1998, Monachesi, 1996, 1999) that bounded clitic climbing (CC) is best understood in terms of argument composition. Despite the fact that all current analyses of CC are based on the same core idea, individual analyses of this phenomenon ...
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Cross‐Cultural Variation in the Noun Bias in Early Vocabulary Development: A Systematic Review

Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 7, July 2026.
Abstract Children's early vocabularies have been observed to be predominated by nouns, particularly concrete and animate nouns. This phenomenon, known as the “noun bias,” is argued to reflect a universal conceptual advantage for concrete objects in early word learning, because such referents are perceived as bounded, individualized concepts that are ...
Yiqun Zhang, Subin Kim, Marisa Casillas
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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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Control, restructuring and temporal interpretation

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In 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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Diglossic and Orthographic Features of Reading Comprehension in Standard Arabic: The Primacy of the Spoken Language

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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Infinitive fronting as a transparency effect in Old and Middle French

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In 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, Christina Sevdali, Raffaella Folli   +2 more
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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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The syntax of Romance clitics and selective clitic climbing

Abstract While the primary goal of this article is to discuss a number of parametric differences in the syntax of clitic climbing (Section 12.2), we preliminarily lay out in Section 12.1 what we tentatively take the syntax of Romance clitics to be.
Paola Benincà, Guglielmo Cinque
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