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Vulnerability and stability of Differential Object Marking in Romanian heritage speakers
Differential Object Marking (DOM) marks some objects overtly with specific morphology and is regulated by several semantic and pragmatic factors. DOM exhibits synchronic and diachronic variability within and across languages, especially in bilingual ...
Nicoleta Bateman, Silvina Montrul
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Berber Clitic Doubling and Syntactic Extraction [PDF]
The aim of this paper is twofold. First it is argued that the overt realization of lexical subjects in Berber is an instance of clitic doubling. The markers that have traditionally been considered to be merely agreement markers are to be treated as clitics. Second, and contrary to standard assumptions, it is shown that extraction out of clitic doubling
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Converging and diverging grammars
This paper reports on a cross-generational study of the evolution of Basque Spanish as regards lexical subjects in infinitival constructions, preverbal double negatives, nominal disagreement, clitic doubling, word order, and null objects.
Alazne Landa, Jon Franco
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This paper has a twofold aim: to present a unified analysis of ditransitive constructions and transitivity alternations (dative/accusative alternations) in Spanish.
Anna Pineda
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L2 acquisition of Spanish dative clitics by English and Dutch learners
This article examines the second language acquisition (SLA) of Spanish dative clitics in clitic doubling (CLD) structures that are closely related to the double object construction (DOC) in English and Dutch.
M. Ángeles Escobar-Álvarez
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A look at High Applicatives in Romanian: dative experiencers
Romanian has both Low Applicative Phrases and High Applicative Phrases. At present, Romanian dative experiencers are High Applicatives with a dative phrase as specifier, and an (obligatory) dative clitic as head.
María Luisa Rivero
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On the Reflexive KENDİ in Turkish Sign Language. [PDF]
Kayabaşı D, Abner N.
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Undercompression errors as evidence for conceptual primitives. [PDF]
Guasti MT, Alexiadou A, Sauerland U.
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Complementizer agreement is clitic doubling
Abstract 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
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A Corpus Study of Mexican Spanish Three-Participant Constructions with and without Clitic Doubling
In Spanish verbs associated with three participants – Agent, Theme and Recipient – may appear in alternating constructions, where the 3rd person recipient argument is realized as a prepositional phrase (PP) (Pedro envió una carta a Mar ...
Chiyo Nishida
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