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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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There Is no First Phase of the Jespersen Cycle1

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper challenges the traditional conception of the Jespersen Cycle by arguing that no ‘pure’ first phase of the cycle exists where a single negator operates without reinforcement. Drawing on historical data from Northern Italian dialects (Piedmontese, Lombard, Emilian), we demonstrate that emphatic negative structures systematically co ...
Tommaso Mattiuzzi, Cecilia Poletto
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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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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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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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*Pronoun+Clitic

Baltistica, 1983
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Language Dominance Shapes Protracted Development of Nonpersonal Clitics (Even) in Cases of Widespread Bilingualism

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Little research has explored how language dominance may affect the development and ultimate attainment of morphosyntax in a situation of widespread and social bilingualism, where exposure to both languages starts early on and can be sustained over time.
Adriana Soto‐Corominas, Sílvia Perpiñán, Scott James Perry   +2 more
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An Account of Clitics in Shabaki with Reference to Wackernagels Law [PDF]

, 2014
In this paper the behavior of clitics in Shabaki a northwestern Indo-Iranian language spoken in Nineveh plains in Iraq is discussed in detail with respect to forms and distributions and much more interestingly with respect to sensitivity to Wackernagel
Dr. Abbas H. J. Sultan
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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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