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On Brazilian Portuguese 3rd person object full pronouns

Isogloss, 2023
It has been observed that certain overt 3rd person object pronouns, such as ‘it’ in paycheck sentences, propositional clitics in Portuguese and English, 3rd person non-propositional clitics in Catalan, Spanish, Slovenian and Serbian/Croatian may allow
Sonia Cyrino
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Some considerations on the syntax of expletive subjects in Old Venetan and the emergence of subject clitics

Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2021
Old Venetan varieties display different forms of third person subject pronouns. In particular, the reduced monosyllabic and asyllabic forms are strongly related to the expletive subject function.
Jacopo Garzonio
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Clitics in Old Serbian: What does the text of the Troyan Parable tell us?

Linguistica Brunensia
The present paper examines the diachronic development of Serbian clitics. The investigation of clitics is of special interest in Slavic languages: despite the fact that these languages display free worder, the use of clitics is subject to strict rules ...
Lilla Nikolin Dukai
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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, Francisco J. Fernández-Rubiera   +1 more
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Clitics, DOM and ellipsis

Isogloss
This 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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Cherokee Clitics: The Word Boundary Problem

Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1999
The problem of identifying Cherokee clitics is complicated by the fact that the prosodic word, marked by the presence of a tonal boundary, may not match the morphological word.
Haag, Marcia
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The development and evaluation of an automatic clitic generator for Pashto language

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Clitics 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, Ihsan Rabbi, Umar Farooq, Jawad Khan, Younhyun Jung   +4 more
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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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Vestigial ergativity in Shughni: At the intersection of alignment, clitic doubling, and feature-driven movement

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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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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