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The clitic string as a Pair Merge sequence

open access: yesGlossa, 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

open access: yesIsogloss, 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

open access: yesIsogloss, 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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Serbo-Croat Clitics and Word Grammar [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Serbo-Croat has a complex system of clitics which raise interesting problems for any theory of the interface between syntax and morphology. After summarising the data we review previous analyses (mostly within the generative tradition), all of which are ...
Hudson, Richard, Čamdžić, Amela
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The ‘Big DP’ Hypothesis: New Evidence from Gender Agreement in a Shipibo-Spanish Language Contact Situation

open access: yesCatalan 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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Mukri Pronominal Enclitics distribution in VP: An Optimality Theoretic [PDF]

open access: yesزبان 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

open access: yesLanguages, 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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Language sample analysis for Spanish speakers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
textThe purpose of this project was to develop a Spanish language sample analysis (LSA) scoring procedure for English-Spanish bilinguals used to guide clinicians in developing language goals and monitoring progress on those goals. A Spanish LSA procedure
Pool, Molly Lauren
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Auxiliary clitics in Polish

open access: yesLingBaW, 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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Clitics in Gilaki: A typological approach [PDF]

open access: yesنشریه پژوهش‌های زبان‌شناسی
Clitics, as a subtype of bound morphemes, can be treated as syntactic words. However, they are morphologically dependent on a word with which they make up a morphological unit.
Hakimeh Pourjamal Ghouyjagh   +2 more
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