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Double pronominalization and clitic doubling in Dialectal Brazilian Portuguese and Colloquial Standard Brazilian Portuguese

Isogloss, 2023
In this study, we propose a comparative analysis of the ditransitive constructions in Dialectal Brazilian Portuguese (DBP) and Colloquial Standard Brazilian Portuguese (BP), taking into consideration the phenomenon named Double Pronominalization, in ...
Heloisa Salles, Maria Aparecida Torres Morais   +1 more
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Distinguishing between accounts of the A/A'-distinction: the view from Argentinian Spanish Clitic Doubling

Isogloss, 2022
The A/A'-distinction underpins case, agreement, and binding properties of moving DPs. It also determines possible movement paths (cf. the Ban on Improper Movement).
Suzana Fong
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Clitic Doubling and Contact in Arabic

, 2014
Forms of clitic doubling are attested in a significant number of Arabic varieties, including the Levant and northern Iraq, parts of Algeria and Morocco, Malta, Central Asia, and even, doubtfully, Dhofar. Language contact is widely accepted as an explanation for its presence in the Levant, and has been advanced as an explanation for its occurrence in ...
Lameen Souag
semanticscholar   +6 more sources

First conjunct clitic doubling in Modern Greek: Evidence for Agree-based approaches to clitic doubling

Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2023
AbstractWe investigate the syntax of the hitherto understudied phenomenon of first conjunct clitic doubling, with reference to Modern Greek. We argue that it provides crucial evidence against movement-based approaches to clitic doubling, which would incorrectly rule out first conjunct clitic doubling as a violation of the Coordinate Structure ...
Lefteris Paparounas, Martin Salzmann
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Clitic-doubling and (non-)configurationality [PDF]

, 2008
In this paper we investigate Greek, an optional clitic doubling language not subject to Kaynes generalization (Jaeggli 1982), and we argue that in this language, doubled DPs are in A-positions. We propose that Greek clitics are formal features that move,
Alexiadou, Artemis, Anagnostopoulou, Elena   +1 more
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Conditions on clitic doubling: the agreement hypothesis

Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 1993
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Jon Franco
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Clitic doubling of the proposed direct object in Bulgarian

Slavia Meridionalis, 2018
Clitic doubling of the proposed direct object in Bulgarian The presence or absence of accusative clitic doubling in Bulgarian clauses with direct object preposing serves grammatical or pragmatic purposes and falls within the discussion on word order ...
Bilyana Ovcharova
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Clitic doubling in Bulgarian [PDF]

Linguistics in the Netherlands, 2001
Ivanka Petkova Schick, Frits Beukema
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Complementizer agreement is clitic doubling

Natural Language & Linguistic Theory
Abstract Complementizer agreement in minority and nonstandard West Germanic languages is well-known and frequently studied, but there is little agreement on its analysis. In this paper, I add to this debate by presenting novel and underdiscussed data from Frisian and Limburgian on intervention effects: what happens to complementizer agreement
Astrid van Alem
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Breaking Agreements: Distinguishing Agreement and Clitic Doubling by Their Failures [PDF]

Linguistic Inquiry, 2009
Omer Preminger
exaly   +2 more sources