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Brazilian Portuguese argument ellipsis [PDF]
Isogloss, 2023 The present study puts forward a novel analysis of argument ellipsis (AE) in Brazilian Portuguese (BP), according to which AE in BP takes place in a clitic doubling configuration, where the clitic is a phonologically null clitic and AE targets the ...
Ezekiel Panitz
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Clitic Doubling in Vernacular Medieval Greek [PDF]
Transactions of the Philological Society, 2013 AbstractThis paper 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 Greek is perfectly applicable to vernacular Medieval Greek.
Soltic, Jorie
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“Move vs. Agree”: the case of Clitic Doubling [PDF]
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2012 This paper continues the long-standing discussion whether clitics in clitic doubling constructionsshould be regarded as being similar to affixes expressing subject-verb agreement or rather as reflexes ofmovement.
Mihaela Adriana Marchis
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Specificity effects with clitic doubling and pe marking [PDF]
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2014 This paper focuses on the relationship between pe marking and clitic doubling in Romanian arguing in favour of Bleam’s (1999) hypothesis: the two mechanisms are semantically related through the specificity effects they both engender, but are otherwise ...
Alina-Mihaela Tigău
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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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Neither agreement nor pronouns [PDF]
IsoglossBaker & Kramer (2018) suggests that the distribution of clitic doubling in Spanish follows from Weak Crossover. Thus, the fact that in accusative clitic doubling bare wh-phrases cannot be doubled (e.g., *¿A quién lo viste?
Andrés Saab
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The Balkan clitic doubling and its possible Equivalent in German
Studien zur Deutschen Sprache und Literatur, 2022 One peculiarity of all Indo-European Balkan (Slavic and non-Slavic) languages is object reduplication or clitic doubling. Since the German language does not use reduplication of objects, the aim of this article is to examine the possible equivalent in ...
Teuta Abrashi
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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 the Romance Languages
The phenomenon of clitic doubling is very widespread in different forms in the Romance languages. It can be defined as the double occurrence of the same constituent twice inside a single clausal unit; one of the two is represented by a clitic while the other has the properties of a whole phrase.
Cecilia Poletto, Francesco Pinzin
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Obligatory dative clitic doubling in Spanish
Work Papers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics, University of North Dakota Session, 1993 This study investigates the phenomenon of obligatory dative doubling, examining data based upon a critique of two analyses of clitic doubling in Spanish within cdfferent grammatical frameworks. Previous analyses propose that dative clitic doubling is obligatory whenever the Noun Phrase in indirect position is not a semantic Recipient/Addressee (Goal ...
Hardin, Karol Joy
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