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Brazilian Venetan is going leísta
Isogloss, 2023 This paper discusses language variation in heritage languages, focussing on a peculiar use of the dative clitic ghe in Brazilian Venetan, a heritage northern Italo-Romance variety. Corpus data and grammaticality judgments by native speakers showed that,
Alberto Frasson
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What the PCC tells us about “abstract” agreement, head movement, and locality
Glossa, 2019 Based on the cross- and intra-linguistic distribution of Person Case Constraint (PCC) effects, this paper shows that there can be no agreement in ϕ-features (PERSON, NUMBER, GENDER/NOUN-CLASS) which systematically lacks a morpho-phonological footprint ...
Omer Preminger
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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
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The development of the English-type passive in Balinese
Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, 2018 The morpheme -a in Balinese is ambiguous because it can serve as a third person enclitic pronoun or a passive voice marker. Various views exist about whether the morpheme can be a pronoun in the presence of a teken agentive phrase. This paper argues that
Hiroki Nomoto
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Dative Doubling in Non-Mandatory Contexts in European Spanish
Languages, 2023 Clitic doubling (CD) is the co-appearance in the same sentence of the clitic and a correlative syntagma in the canonical position of the object. Apart from obligatory contexts, CD of the indirect object (IO) is found with variable frequency in Romance ...
Sara Gómez Seibane
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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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A biclausal account of Clitic Left-Dislocations with epithets in Rioplatense Spanish
Glossa, 2020 Clitic Left-Dislocations with Epithets in Rioplatense Spanish (CLLD+ep) are sentences with three apparently co-referential direct object constituents: a clitic-left-dislocated topic DP (DP-LD), a clitic (CL) and a post-verbal epithet (DP-ep).
Bruno Estigarribia
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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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Clitic doubling in Peninsular and Rioplatense Spanish: a comparative corpus investigation
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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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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