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Acquisition of clitic climbing by European Portuguese children

2021
Abstract This study investigates the acquisition of clitic climbing by European Portuguese speaking children considering spontaneous production data from three children aged 1;5 to 3;11 (Santos’ corpus: Santos et al., 2014) and data from an elicited production task administered to 64 children aged 5;2 to 8;2.
Maria Lobo, Inês Vitorino
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Remarks on Clitic-Climbing in Brazilian Portuguese

Lingua, 1982
Abstract Quicoli (1976) argues that data from Clitic-Climbing in (Brazilian) Portuguese provide evidence in Favour of Chomsky's Specified Subject Condition. Other linguists have questioned Quicoli's data arguing that Brazilian Protuguese does not allow Clitic-Climbing.
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Clitic Climbing and the Dual Status of Sembrare

Linguistic Inquiry, 2006
For some speakers of Italian (reported in Cinque 2004), Italian sembrare ‘seem’ has dual status. On the one hand, it is a lexical verb, with an experiencer argument; on the other hand, it behaves like a “restructuring verb.” In the latter case, sembrare is incompatible with an experiencer argument and it allows clitic climbing. This article identifies
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A Minimalist Approach to Clitic Climbing

2000
Abstract In the Minimalist framework (Chomsky 1993, 1994), movement is driven by morphological necessity, that is, movement is possible only for the purposes of morphological feature checking. In Kayne’s (1989) account of clitic climbing (CC), languages displaying this phenomenon are showed to have certain properties, induced by the ...
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Italian Negative Infinitival Imperatives and Clitic Climbing

2000
Abstract This use of the infinitive is notable in several ways. First, there is the very fact that an infinitive is used in a root construction; second, the fact that it is limited to the negative imperative (i.e., the positive imperative corresponding to (1) would not have the infinitive).
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A baseline for object clitic climbing in Italian

Linguistics Vanguard
Abstract Despite a considerable amount of research dealing with the phenomenon of object clitic climbing (OCC) in Italian, some aspects of the phenomenon are largely understudied. These include the rate of occurrence of OCC and its variational spectrum (relating to questions such as where in the Italian-speaking areas OCC occurs to ...
Gardani, Francesco, Zanini, Chiara
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Intervention effects in Czech clitic climbing

Journal of Slavic Linguistics
abstract: This paper examines restrictions on the ability of Czech second-position clitics to climb out of embedded clauses. Clitics cluster together in a set order, and while arguments of a single verb can freely rearrange themselves to match the required order, arguments of embedded infinitives generally cannot climb over controllers in the matrix ...
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Clitic climbing in the speech of Braga and Lisbon

2017
Abstract In European Portuguese, clitic pronouns can be attached to the highest verb in certain verbal clusters, a process known as clitic climbing (CC). According to some authors (Magro, 2005), CC is more productive in the Northern varieties of European Portuguese.
Barbosa, Pilar, Paiva, Maria da Conceição de, Martins, Kellen Cozine   +2 more
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Verb-Adjacent Clitic Climbing and Restructuring in Isbukun Bunun

Oceanic Linguistics, 2017
This paper investigates agent-oriented, manner, and frequency adverbials in Isbukun Bunun and demonstrates how voice affects the functions of adverbials and captures the notion of restructuring. Adverbial-verb constructions are shown to involve complementation rather than conjunction or adjunction.
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Clitic climbing in Grecia Salentina Greek: a dynamic account

2009
Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistics Theory, Vol 4, No 1 (2009)
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