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11. Rethinking the Clitic Doubling parameter: The inverse correlation between clitic doubling and participle agreement

2008
This study focuses on the parameters that regulate the cross-linguistic distribution of clitic doubling and attempts to derive the availability of object clitic doubling on the basis of the systematic link between clitic doubling and participle agreement. The claim to be defended is that the presence of participial agreement determines the availability
Vina Tsakali, Elena Anagnostopoulou
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Clitic doubling in Spanish

2010
The syntactic behavior of nouns is in part determined by their meaning; for example, nouns which refer to human beings usually have special syntactic properties. The basic distinction between human and non-human nouns is a psychological reality reflected in language specific properties of many languages. The question is how this difference is reflected
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2. Towards grammaticalization of clitic doubling: Clitic doubling in Macedonian and neighbouring languages

2008
In the Balkan Slavic languages, whose dialects actually form a dialectal continuum, clitic doubling shows gradual variation along a vertical north-south axis and a horizontal east-west axis. On the north-south axis, there is variation with respect to the categories that can be clitic-doubled.
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Clitic doubling and differential object marking

Constructions and Frames, 2015
This work follows the progression of a grammatical construction that unifies the Romanian accusative preposition pe with a coreferential pronominal clitic, together forming the cd-pe construction. On the basis of historical texts, it is argued that these two grammatical phenomena evolved into a clause-level construction with a dedicated semantics and ...
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Subject Clitics in French and Romance Complex Inversion and Clitic Doubling

1999
The analysis of the French construction of Complex Inversion illustrated in (1) below raises difficulties with respect to current conceptions of available phrase structure: (1) a. Jean est-il malade? ‘Is John sick?’ b. Depuquis quand Jean est-il malade. ‘Since when is John sick.’
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4. Clitic doubling and Old Bulgarian

2008
In this paper we address the origin of the phenomenon of clitic doubling in the Balkan linguistic continuum based in data from the earliest Old Bulgarian manuscripts. We argue that our data witness instances of what we consider clitic doubling proper, similar to the Modern Bulgarian phenomenon of the same type.
Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova, Valentin Vulchanov   +1 more
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The formal semantics of clitic doubling

Journal of Semantics, 1999
This article presents a study of the semantics of clitic pronouns and clitic doubling in Spanish and related languages. Its main hypothesis is that the co-occurrence restrictions that are observed between the clitic element and its quantifier associate can be properly characterized within Generalized Quantifiers Theory.
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Doubled clitics are pronouns

Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2018
Mark Baker, Ruth Kramer
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Clitic doubling in the Balkan languages

2008
This volume is a collection of articles on clitic doubling, a phenomenon that has preoccupied generative linguists since the 1980s, when its theoretical importance was noted. Clitic doubling is prevalent in the Balkan languages. However, generative studies initially dealt with its properties in Romance languages, with the Balkan patterns coming ...
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Novel Experiencer‐Object Verbs and Clitic Doubling

Syntax, 2019
A. Alexiadou, E. Anagnostopoulou
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