The clitic status of person markers in Sorani Kurdish
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2018 The ambiguous nature of clitics challenges simple distinctions between morphology and syntax. Clitic properties also feature in theoretical accounts of ergativity. In this paper we analyze the nature of the person markers in Sorani Kurdish.
Hiba Gharib, Clifton Pye
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Gender Agreement Attraction in Greek Comprehension. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2020 This work explores gender agreement attraction in comprehension. Attraction occurs when an agreement error (such as, “the key to the cabinets are rusty”) goes unnoticed, leading to the illusion of grammaticality due to a mismatch between the value of the
Paspali A, Marinis T.
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acquisition of clitic objects in Modern Greek : single clitics, clitic doubling, clitic left dislocation [PDF]
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. It will be shown that: - acquisition data pose a problem for the Uniformity
Theodoros Marinis
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Cherokee Clitics: The Word Boundary Problem
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1999 The problem of identifying Cherokee clitics is complicated by the fact that the prosodic word, marked by the presence of a tonal boundary, may not match the morphological word.
Haag, Marcia
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Brazilian portuguese prepositional clitics prosodization: what do writing data reveal?
Raído, 2017 The purpose of this paper is to analyses hyposegmentations (e.g. “de novo” to “de novo”) and hypersegmentations (e.g. “de pois” to “de pois”) with the aim to discuss how these data structure reveal clues related to prepositional clitics prosodization of ...
Lilian Maria da Silva
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Disentangling bilingualism and developmental language disorder in the acquisition of Spanish articles and clitics: Quantitative and qualitative contributions. [PDF]
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Under pressure: Exploring the impact of cognitive factors on clitics placement in L2 Slovak [PDF]
Open LinguisticsThis article investigates word order of clitics in L2 Slovak and the possible impact of cognitive factors on it. Based on data from the learner corpus, the article makes a first attempt at a more thorough inquiry of ordering patterns in the interlanguage
Ivanová Martina
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Expletive Subject Clitics in Northern Italo-Romance
Languages, 2022 This article examines the syntax of subject clitics in northern Italian dialects. Statistical analysis is performed on a sample of 350 dialects to show that the co-variation between syntactic variables is significant.
Diego Pescarini
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Mukri Kurdish Pronominal Clitics: A Prosodic Analysis [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2021 .Clitics are basically inter-modular elements which interrelate phonology, morphology, and syntax. These elements lack phonological independency and need a phonological independent host to be realized phonologically and finally their distributions follow
Qadir Allahweisi Azar +3 more
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Types of clitics in the world’s languages
Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, 2023 This paper offers and discusses a simple definition of the term clitic from a comparative perspective: A clitic is a bound morph that is neither an affix nor a root.
Martin Haspelmath
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