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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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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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Syntax and Morphology in the Placement of Clitics in European and Brazilian Portuguese

open access: yesJournal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2005
This paper argues that the variation in the placement of clitic pronouns in European and Brazilian Portuguese follows from the interaction of two properties in regard of which these two languages differ.
Charlotte Galves   +2 more
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Clitici espletivi nei dialetti settentrionali: i dati dell’Atlante Sintattico d’Italia (ASIt)

open access: yesAtti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2014
The present article aims at illustrating methodologies, objectives and results of the ASIt project (Atlante Sintattico d’Italia) by focusing on the morphosyntax of expletive subject clitics.
Diego Pescarini
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The clitic status of person markers in Sorani Kurdish

open access: yesKansas 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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Prominence as an anchor for a clitic: prosody-sensitive placement of the conditional subordinator ki in Kazym Khanty

open access: yesGlossa, 2023
Research on clitics usually distinguishes between syntactic and phonological clitics (e.g. Embick & Noyer 2001; Anderson 2005). The latter ones are treated as highly locally restricted (Embick & Noyer 2001): they can be dislocated to the nearest ...
Aleksandra Belkind
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Decomposing Spanish dative clitics

open access: yesBorealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2021
In Spanish, dative clitics have standardly been analyzed differently from accusative ones. The apparent different constraints that regulate each of these clitic doubling constructions have been at the base of the differing analyses.
Adolfo Ausin   +1 more
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