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Decomposing Spanish dative clitics
Borealis: 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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The development and evaluation of an automatic clitic generator for Pashto language
Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsClitics are unstressed and unaccented words or particles that are phonetically dependent on adjacent words, accented in nature. They are available in many languages around the world including the Pashto language, which is spoken in Pakistan and ...
Aziz Ud Din +4 more
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IsoglossThis paper discusses the correlation between clitics, DOM and ellipsis in Spanish. As observed by Cyrino & Ordóñez (2018), strict and sloppy readings can be obtained in both TP ellipsis and argument ellipsis with clitics.
Samara Almeida, Francisco Ordoñez
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Enclisis, mesoclisis and inflection in Italo-Romance varieties: A minimalist analysis
LingBaW, 2023 This contribution addresses a central theme in morphological analysis, namely the relationship between clitics and inflectional elements. Important contributions on the point are due to Anderson (1992) and Marantz (1988), who, in different ways, connect
Leonardo M. Savoia, Benedetta Baldi
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Fronting in Old Catalan: Asymmetries between Narration and Reported Speech1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 1-28, March 2025.Abstract This article explores the distribution, syntax, and information structure of XVS clauses in the narrative text and the reported speech of a thirteenth‐century Old Catalan chronicle, the Llibre dels Fets. It is shown that XVS occurs mainly within reported speech and in embedded clauses.
Afra Pujol i Campeny
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Acquisition of Pronominal Clitics in Romanian
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2006 This paper uses new evidence from elicited production experiments to establish that Romanian children do not omit either direct or indirect object clitics at a significant rate.
Maria Babyonyshev, Stefania Marin
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Glossa, 2020 This paper provides an account of two related aspects of the past-tense morphosyntax of Shughni (Eastern Iranian): (i) the use of second-position clitics, rather than the verbal suffixes of the present tense, to index past-tense subjects’ φ-features; and
Clinton Parker
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The specifier–head relationship: negation and French subject proforms [PDF]
, 2007 This article1 and the three others in this thematic collection are about heads and specifiers, the relationship between them, and how this relationship can change over time.
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Romance Loans in Middle Dutch and Middle English: Retained or Lost? A Matter of Metre1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Romance words have been borrowed into all medieval West‐Germanic languages. Modern cognates show that the metrical patterns of loans can differ although the Germanic words remain constant: loan words Dutch kolónie, English cólony, German Koloníe compared with Germanic words Dutch wéduwe, English wídow, German Wítwe.
Johanneke Sytsema, Aditi Lahiri
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Cuantitative clitics in Romance and Slavic
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 1991 In this article I argue that quantitative clitics in Romance (Italian and French) and Slavic (Czech) perform the task of identifying a quantitative pro inside an internal argument, since they carry the feature [+ quantitative] .
Luis A. Sáez
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