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It has been widely argued that morphological competence, particularly functional morphology, represents the bottleneck of second language acquisition (Jensen et al. 2017; Lardiere 1998, 2005; Slabakova 2008, 2009, 2013).
Liliana Sánchez, Elisabeth Mayer
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Clitics and direct objects in Macedonian [PDF]
This squib investigates the distribution of clitics with direct object DPs in Macedonian. In particular, it aims to explain the co-occurrence restrictions on clitics with IP-internal DPs, i.e., DPs in pre- and postverbal position.
Kochovska, Slavica
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Vulnerability and stability of Differential Object Marking in Romanian heritage speakers
Differential Object Marking (DOM) marks some objects overtly with specific morphology and is regulated by several semantic and pragmatic factors. DOM exhibits synchronic and diachronic variability within and across languages, especially in bilingual ...
Nicoleta Bateman, Silvina Montrul
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The subject-in-situ generalization revisited [PDF]
The goal of this paper is to re-examine the status of the condition in (1) proposed in Alexiadou and Anagnostopoulou (2001; henceforth A&A 2001), in view of recent developments in syntactic theory.
Alexiadou, Artemis +1 more
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Converging and diverging grammars
This paper reports on a cross-generational study of the evolution of Basque Spanish as regards lexical subjects in infinitival constructions, preverbal double negatives, nominal disagreement, clitic doubling, word order, and null objects.
Alazne Landa, Jon Franco
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This paper has a twofold aim: to present a unified analysis of ditransitive constructions and transitivity alternations (dative/accusative alternations) in Spanish.
Anna Pineda
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La noción de tópico en la evolución de la duplicación clítica [PDF]
El fenómeno de la duplicación clítica está estrechamente ligado a la noción de ‘tópico’. En este trabajo dicha noción será empleada como herramienta fundamental para analizar, a través del corpus, el proceso de gramaticalización del pronombre átono como ...
Vivanco, Margot
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L2 acquisition of Spanish dative clitics by English and Dutch learners
This article examines the second language acquisition (SLA) of Spanish dative clitics in clitic doubling (CLD) structures that are closely related to the double object construction (DOC) in English and Dutch.
M. Ángeles Escobar-Álvarez
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Pleonastic tet in the Lapscheure dialect [PDF]
The paper explores the semantic value and the distributional and formal properties of the element tet in West Flemish and assesses its main properties in both aspects.
Haegeman, Liliane +1 more
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