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I clitici “soggetto” occitani comparati con i sistemi della Romània continua: il parametro del soggetto nullo e i residui di sintassi V2

Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2019
Practically all Romance languages have complement clitic pronouns which basically replace the arguments of a verb. Only a sub-area of Romance, extending from France through northern Italy to the Adriatic Sea, also has subject clitics, connected to the ...
Paola Benincà
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Some conceptual and empirical issues in linguistic theory : an illustration with pronominal clitics [PDF]

, 2013
I would like to discuss a few general conceptual issues in linguistic theory, and see how they bear on some empirical facts about pronominal clitics. In particular, I would like to show that the conception of linguistic theory, justified on independent ...
Law, Paul
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Just pair‐merge

Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 3, Page 527-549, September 2024.
Abstract Two structure‐building operations are currently posited in minimalist theory: an operation forming sets (set merge), and an operation forming ordered pairs (pair‐merge). I argue that pair‐merge is sufficient to generate syntactic relations, so set merge, also called simple merge, should be eliminated from syntactic theory on grounds of ...
Ken Safir
wiley   +1 more source

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

Caligrama: 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
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Gilaki reverse Ezafe: The two faces of a nominal linker

Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 2, Page 376-392, June 2024.
Abstract This paper examines a nominal linker (known as reverse Ezafe) in the Caspian language Gilaki. It is shown that the nominal linker in Gilaki is in fact the realization of two different morphosyntactic elements with distinct properties. In doing so, we also highlight the differences between reverse Ezafe and Ezafe, found in Persian and other ...
Arsalan Kahnemuyipour, Mansour Shabani, Sahar Taghipour   +2 more
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Referential Cohesion, Ambiguity, Vagueness and Generality in Parliamentary Debate*

Studia Linguistica, Volume 78, Issue 1, Page 128-155, April 2024.
Abstract Political discourse has been characterised as being ‘vague’ and ‘ambiguous’. It is argued that politicians tend to use generic and unspecific words in order to avoid explicit commitment (McGee 2018). Although this situation may describe discourse genres such as political interviews and election debates, it is unclear that it can be applied to ...
Josep E. Ribera
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Syntax and Morphology in the Placement of Clitics in European and Brazilian Portuguese

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2005
This paper argues that the variation in the placement of clitic pronouns in European and Brazilian Portuguese follows from the interaction of two properties in regard of which these two languages differ.
Charlotte Galves, Ilza Ribeiro, M. Aparecida T. Moraes   +2 more
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Structural Ambiguity and the Architecture of Language1

Studia Linguistica, Volume 78, Issue 1, Page 35-63, April 2024.
Abstract This article investigates what structural ambiguity reveals about the architecture of language. It analyzes two basic types of structural ambiguity, constituent ambiguity and chain formation ambiguity, and illustrates with a small class of selected case studies how they interweave.
Jordi Fortuny
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The formalization of interlanguage: the example of object clitic pronouns acquisition in French L2

Journal of Information and Telecommunication
The interlanguage of second and foreign language French learners presents certain patterns that offer a formal framework within the context of the Applicative Combinatory Categorical Grammar.
Amina Affes, Ismaïl Biskri, Adel Jebali
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Clitic Production in Bilingual Children: When Exposure Matters

Languages, 2018
The aim of this work is to investigate how bilingual children perform with respect to monolingual children in a task eliciting direct object clitic pronouns in Italian.
Maria Vender, Denis Delfitto, Chiara Melloni   +2 more
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