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Abstract The past decades have seen an explosion of research using electrophysiological or neuroimaging techniques for studying the neurocognitive underpinnings of second language (L2) processing. Although this field has a shorter history than does research on language learning more generally, important insights into the neurocognitive basis of L2 ...
Janet G. van Hell
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Clitic placement at the syntax‐phonology interface: A case study of Berber*
Abstract Berber1 clitics are argued to follow the main verb but may appear in a position preceding the verb in the presence of a Complementiser, Negation or Tense. However, there are cases involving a subset of these categories yet the clitics still follow the verb.
Abdelhak El Hankari
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Morphosyntactic Contact in Translation: Greek ídios and Latin proprius in the Bible
Abstract We investigate the possibility that contact with Greek through the translation of biblical texts may have played a role in the development of Latin proprius ‘personal’, ‘peculiar’ into a reflexive possessive adjective. A few centuries earlier, post‐Classical Greek witnesses a similar development with the adjective ídios ‘private’, ‘personal ...
Marina Benedetti, Chiara Gianollo
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Abstract When linguists make inferences about language contact, control data is required for reliable analysis. Historical data or reconstructions are typically used for that purpose. However, historical data is globally mostly unavailable, and reconstructions are laborious if comparing outcomes of language contact in a typological way.
Kaius Sinnemäki, Noora Ahola
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Abstract Background One of the most consistent findings reported in the paediatric cochlear implant (CI) literature is the heterogeneity of language performance observed more in grammatical morphology than in lexicon or pragmatics. As most of the corpus studies addressing these issues have been conducted in English, it is unclear whether their results ...
Marie‐Thérèse Le Normand +1 more
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Torlak clitic doubling: A cross-linguistic comparison [PDF]
This paper examines the types of clitics and clitic placement in Torlak. This vernacular, spoken in South-Eastern Serbia, also called the Prizren-Timok variety, whose genealogical position is still debatable, requires more attention from the scientific ...
Jelena Živojinović
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Obligatory dative clitic doubling in Spanish [PDF]
From the introduction: This study investigates the phenomenon of obligatory dative doubling, examining data based upon a critique of two analyses of clitic doubling in Spanish within different grammatical frameworks.
Hardin, Karol Joy
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This work presents and discusses the development of the hypothesis according to which clitic doubling (pronominal reduplication), as seen in the sentence “Je ne parle pas anglais moi.
Ruth de Oliveira
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Berber Clitic Doubling and Syntactic Extraction [PDF]
Dans cet article, nous démontrons que la réalisation syntaxique d’un sujet lexical en berbère est un cas de dédoublement de clitique. Les marqueurs qui ont été traditionnellement traités comme des marques d’accord sont en réalité des clitiques sujet ...
Guerssel, Mohamed
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The internal structure of a differentially marked DP in Romanian [PDF]
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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