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The Syntactic Status of Subject Clitics: A Problem from Venetan SE‐Constructions

open access: yesTransactions 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
wiley   +1 more source

Kinship‐based deference among Jaru siblings: A collaborative, adaptive, and multimodal accomplishment

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract In the Jaru community of northern Western Australia, certain in‐laws and relatives are categorized as being in a highly respectful relationship in which they are expected to pay deference to one another. This conversation‐analytic study closely examines the deferential practices that are used among three Jaru siblings in an ordinary multi ...
Josua Dahmen
wiley   +1 more source

Gender Agreement in a Language Contact Situation

open access: yesLanguages, 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   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The poetry as reliable evidence of linguistic phenomena [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Many linguists refuse to believe that poetic and especially metrical - texts can provide reliable evidence of linguistic phenomena. In this article, I show that the Medieval Greek poetry represents an exception.
Soltic, Jorie
core   +2 more sources

New Insights Into Lakota Syntax: The Encoding of Arguments and the Number of Verbal Affixes

open access: yesStudia 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
wiley   +1 more source

Towards an Integrated Model of Change: Language Contact, Dialect Contact, Internal Variation

open access: yesTransactions 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
wiley   +1 more source

A reanálise dos clíticos «me» e «te» em estruturas de redobro pronominal no dialeto mineiro

open access: yesCaligrama: 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
doaj   +1 more source

The Subword‐Character Multi‐Scale Transformer With Learnable Positional Encoding for Machine Translation

open access: yesEngineering 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
wiley   +1 more source

Agentive reflexive clitics and transitive 'se' constructions in Spanish

open access: yesBorealis: 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
doaj   +1 more source

An experimental study on the discourse properties of Romanian direct objects [PDF]

open access: yesStudii 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
doaj  

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