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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, Dominique Sportiche
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Auxiliary clitics in Polish [PDF]
LingBaW, 2018 Polish auxiliary clitics constitute an interesting set of data which draws attention to cross-linguistic differences among Slavic languages. A general principle for clitic placement in Indo-European languages is the one described by Jacob Wackernagel in
Dorota Jagódzka
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Types of clitics in the world’s languages [PDF]
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 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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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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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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Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2023 Previous evidence suggests clitics and determiners do not enter the same type of gender agreement relations in contact varieties of Spanish, despite proposals that treat clitics as determiners (big DP – Determiner Phrase – hypothesis) (Uriagereka 1995 ...
Liliana Sánchez +3 more
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