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Clitics, Pronouns and Movement
1997The introduction to this volume by Anders Holmberg provides a reflection on movement in the light of recent developments in Minimalist theory. His discussion of the theories of category versus feature movement in terms of displacement and copying, provides the background for 12 papers dealing with clitics, pronouns and movement in variety of language ...
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Dialogical factors in toddlers’ use of clitic pronouns
First Language, 2010Young (1;9—2;4) children’s use of third person clitic subject pronouns in natural dialogues was examined in both longitudinal and cross-sectional data. Considering that young children mainly use pronouns in the context of referential continuity, this study aims at identifying some of the factors that affect this use.
Salazar Orvig, Anne +5 more
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Pronouns, Clitics and Empty Nouns
2002Two issues little discussed in the generative literature are the internal structure of pronouns and what it is in Syntax that triggers pronominal reference. This monograph treats these two topics in detail and investigates whether pronominal (strong, weak and clitic pronouns) and related elliptical expressions can be given a unified syntactic ...
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Pronouns and Clitics in Early Language
2012Traditional grammars have stated that clitics are subject or object pronouns whose distributional features make them different from personal pronouns. This book focuses on the acquisition of personal and demonstrative pronouns as well as clitics with respect to determinative phrases in a variety of languages of the Romance family and several indigenous
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Clitic Pronouns in Italian: A Linguistic Guide
Italica, 19870. Introduction. The traditional grammatical notion of pronouns comprises a wide field of phenomena in any language. Pronouns are normally subdivided into the categories of personal pronouns (e.g., Italian tu, lei, si, ne), possessives (e.g., mio, nostro, etc.), relatives (che, la quale, cui), interrogatives (chi?, quale?), quantifying pronouns (quanti,
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The positioning of clitic pronouns in Spanish
Lingua, 1982Abstract Conditions on rules affecting the positioning of Spanish clitic pronouns within a transformational framework are discussed. It is argued that the Specified Subject Condition and the Tensed Sentence Condition are irrelevant to the analysis. The primary conditions which must be satisfied for a clitic pronoun to move from one verb to another ...
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The Automatic Identification and Classification of Clitic Pronouns
2000The dominant view of parameter setting is that setting a parameter is the same as setting a switch. On this view, the learner is seated at a control panel consisting of a fixed set of switches, where each switch corresponds to a point of cross-linguistic variation.
Shyam Kapur, Robin Clark
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Romance clitic pronouns in lexical paradigms
2012Some morphologists claim that Romance clitic pronouns, rather than being constituents, are encoded in morphological paradigms, together with inflectional affixes. I argue against this position, claiming that these clitics, just like their non-clitic counterparts, are organized in lexical, not in morphological paradigms.
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Afterword: On clitic omission and the acquisition of subject clitic pronouns
2012I focus on two of the topics discussed in the volume, namely clitic omission and the acquisition of subject clitic pronouns. Clitic omission raises a number of comparative issues, while the discussion of subject clitics allows me to present preliminary data on the acquisition of Romance languages which display subject clitics, namely northern Italian ...
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