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“Move vs. Agree”: the case of Clitic Doubling [PDF]

open access: greenBucharest 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
doaj   +2 more sources

Wh-clitic-doubling and wh-Cliticisation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This article explores a pervasive phenomenon in Berber whereby the extraction of dative arguments (of verbs, nouns and prepositions) gives rise to two occurrences of wh.
El Hankari, Abdelhak
core   +3 more sources

Heritage Grammars and Language Change: The Case of Clitic Doubling in Spanish

open access: goldHeritage Language Journal
Some differences between the grammars of heritage and monolingual speakers have been attributed to grammatical innovation, such that heritage behavior may reflect ongoing patterns of diachronic change.
Mercedes Martinez Bruera   +7 more
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

Is structural priming a possible mechanism of language change in heritage language grammars? Some evidence from accusative clitic doubling in Spanish [PDF]

open access: hybridBilingualism: Language and Cognition
The language of heritage speakers is characterized by variability and structural innovations compared to the baseline grammar of first-generation immigrants. Although many factors contribute to these differences, this study considers structural priming
Irati Hurtado, Silvina Montrul
openalex   +2 more sources

Clitic Doubling and Dislocation of Direct Object based on Evidence from Kalhori Kurdish [PDF]

open access: yes̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2020
The present study aimed at investigating clitic doubling in Kalhori Kurdish. The implications of clitic doubling for Kurdish syntax were also investigated.
Sara Ahmadi, Habib Gohari
doaj   +1 more source

Persian clitics: Doubling and agreement

open access: yesJournal of Modern Languages, 2017
In this paper, different functions of Persian pronominal enclitics in verbal domain are discussed. Traditionally, it has been supposed that these enclitics act as arguments, while it is argued here that they act as agreement markers as well.
Mohammad Rasekh
doaj   +9 more sources

Diachronic change and variation in use

open access: yesIsogloss, 2023
Previous studies have demonstrated that in spontaneous speech, Rioplatense Spanish speakers—in contrast to speakers of Peninsular Spanish—sometimes produce clitic-doubled accusative nominal objects.
Esther Rinke   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Specificities in Object Clitic Doubling in Balkan Romance and Balkan Slavic

open access: yesRevue roumaine de linguistique, 2023
The present paper examines the specificities in object clitic doubling in two Balkan Romance languages, Romanian and Aromanian, and two Balkan Slavic languages, Macedonian and Bulgarian.
O. M. Tomic
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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