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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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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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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
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Mukri Pronominal Enclitics distribution in VP: An Optimality Theoretic [PDF]
زبان پژوهی, 2022 Since clitics interconnect different modules of the grammar and are hosted by various hosts from different categories, they have attracted the attention of many linguists. Besides, their interaction with their hosts and positioning in the second position
Ghader Allahweisiazar +3 more
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Interactions between Clitic Subjects and Objects in Piedmont and North Liguria Dialects
Languages, 2022 This contribution addresses a set of phenomena attested in the dialects spoken in Piedmont, including Franco-Provençal and Occitan varieties, and in West Liguria, concerning the interaction between subject and object clitics.
Benedetta Baldi, Leonardo Maria Savoia
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