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Doubled possessives and clitic doubling in Spanish [PDF]
, 2021 In this paper, the properties of the Old and American Spanish doubled posssessive construction are compared with those of clitic doubling. It is shown, on the one hand, that these are, in spite of their formal similarities, two different constructions,
Eguren Gutiérrez, Luis Javier
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Learning to Read and Developmental Dyslexia in Hebrew
Reading Research Quarterly, Volume 60, Issue 1, January/February/March 2025.Abstract The study of Hebrew, a non‐European language written in a non‐alphabetic (abjadic) script offers valuable insights into the science of reading beyond the well‐studied alphabetic scripts. Because reading development in Hebrew is shaped by the uniquely Semitic root‐and‐pattern morphology and the abjadic (predominantly consonantal) orthography ...
Adi Shechter, David L. Share
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Clitic doubling and M-chains in Pirahã
, 1984 From the introduction: Recent studies of syntax have shown clitics to be a rich source of insights into a variety of principles governing the well-formedness of sentences (cf., inter alia, Kayne (1975); Steele, et al. (1981); Jaeggli (1982); Borer (1981)
Everett, Daniel L.
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The reorganization of the direct and indirect objects in Romanian language [PDF]
Diversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa, 2020 The present study, continuing some previous research, highlighted the semantic-syntactic characteristics of the two syntactic positions. Based on the hierarchy of these arguments (transitivity and dative rection), it was found,
Ștefan GĂITĂNARU
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The syntax of Greek split reciprocals
Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 713-746, December 2024.Abstract We provide the first detailed description and analysis of the syntax of the understudied Greek split reciprocal reconstruction. As in other languages, the reciprocal appears to be bipartite consisting of a quantificational distributor (‘the one’) and a reciprocator (‘the other’).
Lefteris Paparounas, Martin Salzmann
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 1, Page 119-150, March 2024.Abstract Degrammaticalisation is an oft‐dismissed category of language change. In this paper evidence is provided for its existence, its triggers, and its conditions. This case study details the development of an understudied Old Italo‐Romance indefinite, covelle, a polarity‐sensitive item roughly translating as ‘anything’ which originated from a Latin
Nicola D’Antuono
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IsoglossIn order to choose among different methods when collecting linguistic data, many different factors should be considered. We will argue that the choice of the most appropriate methods depends on whether a construction applies within one linguistic module
Jorge Vega Vilanova, Susann Fischer
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Auxiliary selection in Italian restructuring: An insight into the size of the clause
Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 1, Page 85-122, March 2024.Abstract In Standard Italian, restructuring clauses are characterized by apparently optional transparency effects in the choice of the clausal perfect auxiliary. In the perfect periphrasis, the auxiliary associated with the modal verb can be either HAVE or the one corresponding to the lexical verb (BE or HAVE).
Irene Amato
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ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 2000 The present study is concerned with Single Clitics, as weil as with Clitic Doubling and Clitic Left Dislocation constructions and will test the Uniformity Hypothesis (Sportiehe 1992), according to which all three constructions involve the same underlying structure.
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Languages, 2018 It has been widely argued that morphological competence, particularly functional morphology, represents the bottleneck of second language acquisition (Jensen et al. 2017; Lardiere 1998, 2005; Slabakova 2008, 2009, 2013).
Liliana Sánchez, Elisabeth Mayer
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