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Agentive reflexive clitics and transitive 'se' constructions in Spanish

Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2013
This paper investigates the structure of transitive sentences that contain a non-doubling reflexive clitic such as Juan se lavó todos los platos and María se leyó un libro. Though these are traditionally labelled unselected (non-core) agreeing datives or
Grant Armstrong
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New Insights Into Lakota Syntax: The Encoding of Arguments and the Number of Verbal Affixes

Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the morphosyntax of transitive constructions in Lakota, with particular emphasis being placed on the encoding of arguments. The analysis of argument marking through verbal affixes in Lakota transitive constructions raises two main questions: the existence or non‐existence of the zero marker for the third person singular and
Avelino Corral Esteban
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The Syntactic Status of Subject Clitics: A Problem from Venetan SE‐Constructions

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 144-167, March 2026.
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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A reanálise dos clíticos «me» e «te» em estruturas de redobro pronominal no dialeto mineiro

Caligrama: Revista de Estudos Românicos, 2012
Resumo: Neste artigo, analisamos a ocorrência das formas pronominais me e te em estruturas de redobro. Argumentamos que, em alguns falares mineiros, essas formas estão sendo reanalisadas como prefixos de concordância para os traços de pessoa [+falante] e
Ricardo Machado Rocha
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An experimental study on the discourse properties of Romanian direct objects [PDF]

Studii de Lingvistica, 2022
Differential Object Marking (DOM) and Clitic Doubling (CD) have been argued to signal prominence of the marked direct object (DO) along various dimensions, such as animacy, referentiality, topicality, affectedness.
Alina Tigău
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Gender Agreement in a Language Contact Situation

Languages, 2022
Gender agreement between determiners and nouns, and gender agreement between third-person clitics and their referents, are notoriously difficult to acquire by bilingual speakers who lack them in their first language, or in one of their first languages ...
Liliana Sánchez, José Camacho, Elisabeth Mayer, Carolina Rodríguez Alzza   +3 more
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Towards an Integrated Model of Change: Language Contact, Dialect Contact, Internal Variation

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 537-555, November 2025.
Abstract This article outlines an integrated model of language change, where change is viewed as the acquisition of innovative grammars by individual native speakers. It is integrated in that it shows how change that is induced by contact between languages, dialects and sociolects can be understood, alongside purely internal change, as part of a single
Christopher Lucas
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Argumentos x núcleos focales: el estatus de clíticos que duplican SSNN en español Argumentos x núcleos focais: o status de clíticos que duplicam SNs em espanhol Arguments and focus heads: the status of NP-doubling clitics in Spanish

DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2006
Este trabalho apresenta uma análise gerativa de clíticos de Caso acusativo envolvidos em construções de reduplicação em espanhol. Demonstrará que este tipo de clítico não constitui um elemento único, e, sim, que pode ser dividido em dois grupos, o dos ...
Paulo Correa
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Distinguishing between accounts of the A/A'-distinction: the view from Argentinian Spanish Clitic Doubling

Isogloss, 2022
The A/A'-distinction underpins case, agreement, and binding properties of moving DPs. It also determines possible movement paths (cf. the Ban on Improper Movement).
Suzana Fong
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The Subword‐Character Multi‐Scale Transformer With Learnable Positional Encoding for Machine Translation

Engineering Reports, Volume 7, Issue 7, July 2025.
The method achieves significant performance breakthroughs in machine translation through deep integration of linguistic features at different granularities. ABSTRACT The transformer model addresses the efficiency bottleneck caused by sequential computation in traditional recurrent neural networks (RNN) by leveraging the self‐attention mechanism to ...
Wenjing Yao, Wei Zhou
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