Reconstructing Clitic Doubling
Glossa, 2019 This paper systematically investigates reconstruction properties of Greek clitic doubled objects, motivates an analysis, and shows how this new evidence distinguishes between the numerous existing analyses of Clitic Doubling (CD).
Nikos Angelopoulos
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Pronominalization and clitic doubling in Syrian and Omani Arabic [PDF]
Linguistics, 2022 This article treats cliticization of a pronoun to a syntactic host and doubling of the clitic pronoun with a non-pronominal counterpart in Syrian and Omani Arabic.
Hallman Peter, Al-Balushi Rashid
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On Psych Verbs and Optional Clitic Doubling in Catalan and Other Ibero-Romance Languages
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2022 Although undesired under a theoretical viewpoint, natural languages often show cases of “true” optionality. According to a reformulation of the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace 2006), highly complex constructions are more susceptible to optionality and ...
Jorge Vega Vilanova
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Vestigial ergativity in Shughni: At the intersection of alignment, clitic doubling, and feature-driven movement [PDF]
Glossa, 2020 This paper provides an account of two related aspects of the past-tense morphosyntax of Shughni (Eastern Iranian): (i) the use of second-position clitics, rather than the verbal suffixes of the present tense, to index past-tense subjects’ φ-features; and
Clinton Parker
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Clitic doubling in Peninsular and Rioplatense Spanish: a comparative corpus investigation [PDF]
Isogloss, 2020 The current study compares the distribution of clitic doubling (CD) in two varieties of Spanish: Peninsular Spanish and Rioplatense Spanish. Based on two corpora of colloquial speech we investigate under which conditions CD with pronominal and nominal ...
Esther Rinke +2 more
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Berber Clitic Doubling and Syntactic Extraction [PDF]
Revue québécoise de linguistique, 2009 Dans cet article, nous démontrons que la réalisation syntaxique d’un sujet lexical en berbère est un cas de dédoublement de clitique. Les marqueurs qui ont été traditionnellement traités comme des marques d’accord sont en réalité des clitiques sujet ...
Mohamed Guerssel
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Clitic Doubling in Vernacular Medieval Greek [PDF]
Transactions of the Philological Society, 2013 This article provides the first in-depth study of clitic doubling in vernacular Medieval Greek. First, it is shown that the four-part typology (topicalization; right-dislocation; backgrounding; left-dislocation) recently developed on the basis of Modern ...
Jorie Soltic
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On the nature of clitic doubling
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 1994 -
Esther Torrego
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acquisition of clitic objects in Modern Greek : single clitics, clitic doubling, clitic left dislocation [PDF]
ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 2000 The present study is concerned with Single Clitics, as weil as with Clitic Doubling and Clitic Left Dislocation constructions and will test the Uniformity Hypothesis (Sportiehe 1992), according to which all three constructions involve the same underlying structure. It will be shown that: - acquisition data pose a problem for the Uniformity
Theodoros Marinis
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A Probabilistic and Syntactic Account of Variable Clitic Agreement in Spanish Double Object Constructions [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 In Spanish clitic-doubling constructions, the clitic should agree in number with its coreferential doubled noun phrase. However, the present corpus analysis with data from 21 Spanish varieties reveals that, under certain structural configurations, number
Gustavo Guajardo
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