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The loss of clitic climbing in French
2020This chapter examines the loss of clitic climbing in French from a Gallo-Romance perspective. A corpus of four hagiographical texts published in the second half of the seventeenth century is used to explore when clitic climbing ceased to be preferred in complex verbal predicates. The results confirm the main research hypothesis, namely that the variant
Zack Bekowies, Mairi McLaughlin
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Clitic climbing in the speech of Braga and Lisbon
Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 2017Abstract 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.
Pilar Barbosa
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Remarks on Clitic-Climbing in Brazilian Portuguese
Lingua, 1982Abstract 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 placement and clitic climbing in Slovenian
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Clitic climbing without climbing: On Emonds' Phrase Mate Condition on clitic placement
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French clitic climbing as periphrasis
Lingvisticae Investigationes, 2020SummaryIn this article, we propose a treatment of French clitic climbing as an instance of morphological periphrasis. In particular we reexamine the evidence in favour of argument composition and a flat VP structure with tense auxiliaries (Abeillé & Godard, 2002) and show (i) that the V (vs.
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Clitic Climbing and the Dual Status of Sembrare
Linguistic Inquiry, 2006For 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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Null Subjects and Clitic Climbing
1989Abstract This proposal was taken up by Rizzi (1982a, 172), who suggested that the re structuring rule underlying (1b) might be excluded from applying in French if it were sensitive to some notion of adjacency and if, following Chomsky (1981a), there were a syntactic rule lowering INFL to the verb in null subject languages like Italian ...
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Linguistic Variation
Abstract This study discusses clitic placement in restructuring contexts in Italian and the Italo-Romance dialects spoken in Italy. The data come from AIS map 1086 and a judgement task experiment conducted on bilectal speakers of Italian and the dialect at six representative points in the Italian territory.
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Abstract This study discusses clitic placement in restructuring contexts in Italian and the Italo-Romance dialects spoken in Italy. The data come from AIS map 1086 and a judgement task experiment conducted on bilectal speakers of Italian and the dialect at six representative points in the Italian territory.
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