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Vestigial ergativity in Shughni: At the intersection of alignment, clitic doubling, and feature-driven movement

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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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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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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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.
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The internal structure of a differentially marked DP in Romanian [PDF]

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2019
This paper starts from the observation that clitic doubling and DOM-pe in Romanian may alternate as differential marking mechanisms for direct objects.
Virginia Hill and Alexandru Mardale
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Double pronominalization and clitic doubling in Dialectal Brazilian Portuguese and Colloquial Standard Brazilian Portuguese

Isogloss, 2023
In this study, we propose a comparative analysis of the ditransitive constructions in Dialectal Brazilian Portuguese (DBP) and Colloquial Standard Brazilian Portuguese (BP), taking into consideration the phenomenon named Double Pronominalization, in ...
Heloisa Salles, Maria Aparecida Torres Morais   +1 more
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Neither agreement nor pronouns

Isogloss
Baker & 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 Syntactic Status of Subject Clitics: A Problem from Venetan SE‐Constructions

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This article reopens the discussion on the syntax of subject clitics (SCLs) in Venetan dialects by providing a problematic piece of data and outlining its theoretical consequences. New evidence from se‐constructions in Alto Polesine Venetan (APV) shows that SCLs resist a unitary categorisation even within the same dialect group: in varieties ...
Marco Fioratti, Leonardo Russo Cardona
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Conditions on clitic doubling: the agreement hypothesis

Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 1993
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Jon Franco
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From Nominalisation to Passive in Old Tibetan: Reconstructing Grammatical Meaning in an Extinct Language1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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