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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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Clitic Doubling in the Romance Languages
Abstract 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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Complementizer agreement is clitic doubling
Natural Language and Linguistic TheoryAbstract 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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THE ROLE OF CLITIC DOUBLING IN THE INFORMATION STRUCTURE OF THE ALBANIAN LANGUAGE [PDF]
Езиков свят, 2023 This paper attempts to argue whether the repetition of the object or clitic doubling as a syntactic mechanism affects the encoding of the information structure in the Albanian language.
Qëndresa JAKUPI
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Subject clitic variation in a northern Italian dialect [PDF]
, 2010 PhDThis study investigates the phenomenon of subject clitic (henceforth, SCl) variation in Ligurian, a variety spoken in the north-west of Italy. Through the examination of empirical data, this work shows that variation can be incorporated in the theory ...
Ciarlo, Chiara
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Diachronic change and variation in use
Isogloss, 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
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Persons and Pronouns: Exploring Clitics in Judeo-Spanish
Isogloss, 2022 Optional versus obligatory clitic doubling and the person-case constraint (PCC) repair constitute two puzzles researchers haven’t fully addressed.
Naomi Kurtz
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On Psych Verbs and Optional Clitic Doubling in Catalan and Other Ibero-Romance Languages
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2022 Although undesired under a theoretical viewpoint, natural languages often show cases of “true” optionality. According to a reformulation of the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace 2006), highly complex constructions are more susceptible to optionality and ...
Jorge Vega Vilanova
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Decomposing Spanish dative clitics
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2021 In Spanish, dative clitics have standardly been analyzed differently from accusative ones. The apparent different constraints that regulate each of these clitic doubling constructions have been at the base of the differing analyses.
Adolfo Ausin +1 more
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Extraposition in River Plate Spanish. A case of clausal doubling?
Isogloss, 2022 This paper explores a set of constructions from River Plate Spanish in which propositional attitude verbs occur both with a third person feminine accusative clitic and a CP in final position (e.g., No me la esperaba que hiciera tanto frío, ‘I didn’t ...
Juan José Arias
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