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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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Clitic dislocations and clitics in French and Greek
Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 2021 This article focuses on Clitic Left Dislocation of XPs in French and Greek. By examining the interpretive properties of these XPs, primarily reconstruction properties, it concludes that they have been displaced from their first merge position via movement into (sometimes) a succession of hierarchically organized middle-field positions first above vP ...
Nikos Angelopoulos +1 more
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The Production of Clitics in Serbian Speakers with Stroke Aphasia [PDF]
Brain SciencesBackground/Objectives: Cross-linguistic studies show that the production of morphosyntactic elements (e.g., clitics) is problematic and often omitted in nonfluent agrammatic aphasia (NFA), with the degree of impairment varying across languages.
Mile Vukovic, Sladjana Lukic
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On the Nature of Clitics and Their Sensitivity to Number Attraction Effects
Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 Pronominal dependencies have been shown to be more resilient to attraction effects than subject-verb agreement. We use this phenomenon to investigate whether antecedent-clitic dependencies in Spanish are computed like agreement or like pronominal ...
Mikel Santesteban +3 more
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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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The clitic string as a Pair Merge sequence
Glossa, 2022 We argue that clitics are structured by Pair Merge, rather than by Set Merge. This contrasts with classical approaches treating the head status of clitics as derived from a fundamentally phrasal syntax.
Diego Pescarini, Maria Rita manzini
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Brazilian Venetan is going leísta
Isogloss, 2023 This paper discusses language variation in heritage languages, focussing on a peculiar use of the dative clitic ghe in Brazilian Venetan, a heritage northern Italo-Romance variety. Corpus data and grammaticality judgments by native speakers showed that,
Alberto Frasson
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Persons and Pronouns: Exploring Clitics in Judeo-Spanish
Isogloss, 2022 Optional versus obligatory clitic doubling and the person-case constraint (PCC) repair constitute two puzzles researchers haven’t fully addressed.
Naomi Kurtz
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Internal Structure of Clitics and Cliticization [PDF]
Journal of Greek Linguistics, 2010 AbstractThe role of the internal structure of clitics in cliticization has been investigated by many researchers up to now. In this study I look into three distinct types of analysis that have been proposed in the literature regarding this role and argue that they do not work for Greek.
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