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Intervention in agreement and case assignment: the role of doubling

Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2020
In this paper we will show that there are two types of languages which involve different mechanisms in obviating Minimality Violations/Defective Intervention and Case opacity: Agreement languages of Punjabi/Icelandic-type with default agreement and ...
Mihaela Moreno Marchis, Ludovico Franco
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The acquisition of clitic objects in Modern Greek : single clitics, clitic doubling, clitic left dislocation

, 2013
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
Marinis, Theodore
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Toward a uniform account of scrambling and clitic doubling

, 2008
A commonly held view in the literature on Scrambling and Clitic Doubling is that both constructions are sensitive to Specificity. For this reason Sportiche (1992) proposes to unify the two, an approach which has become quite standard in the relevant ...
Alexiadou, Artemis, Anagnostopoulou, Elena   +1 more
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Investigating clitic doubling in Laurentian French: An experimental approach

, 2014
Clitic doubling (CD) is a syntactic construction characterized by a clitic in the inflectional domain doubling a Determiner Phrase (DP) in the canonical object position.
Cassandra Chapman
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Vulnerability and stability of Differential Object Marking in Romanian heritage speakers

Glossa, 2020
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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Clitic-doubling and (non-)configurationality

, 2008
In this paper we investigate Greek, an optional clitic doubling language not subject to Kaynes generalization (Jaeggli 1982), and we argue that in this language, doubled DPs are in A-positions. We propose that Greek clitics are formal features that move,
Alexiadou, Artemis, Anagnostopoulou, Elena   +1 more
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Clitic Doubling and Contact in Arabic

, 2017
International audienceForms of clitic doubling are attested in a significant number of Arabic varieties, including the Levant and northern Iraq, parts of Algeria and Morocco, Malta, Central Asia, and even, doubtfully, Dhofar.
Souag, Lameen, null Lameen Souag
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Converging and diverging grammars

Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 1999
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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Subject clitic variation in a northern Italian dialect

, 2010
PhDThis study investigates the phenomenon of subject clitic (henceforth, SCl) variation in Ligurian, a variety spoken in the north-west of Italy. Through the examination of empirical data, this work shows that variation can be incorporated in the theory ...
Ciarlo, Chiara, Chiara Ciarlo
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Possessive clitics in the DP: Doubling or dislocation?

, 2008
This paper contributes to the literature on possessor doubling by looking at the co-occurrence of a possessive DP and a possessive clitic inside the Nominal Expression (NE).
GIUSTI, Giuliana, GIUSTI G., STAVROU M., STAVROU M   +3 more
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