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Gender Agreement in a Language Contact Situation
Gender agreement between determiners and nouns, and gender agreement between third-person clitics and their referents, are notoriously difficult to acquire by bilingual speakers who lack them in their first language, or in one of their first languages ...
Liliana Sánchez +3 more
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The Syntactic Status of Subject Clitics: A Problem from Venetan SE‐Constructions
Abstract This article reopens the discussion on the syntax of subject clitics (SCLs) in Venetan dialects by providing a problematic piece of data and outlining its theoretical consequences. New evidence from se‐constructions in Alto Polesine Venetan (APV) shows that SCLs resist a unitary categorisation even within the same dialect group: in varieties ...
Marco Fioratti, Leonardo Russo Cardona
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How weak are Romanian clitic pronouns?
In traditional linguistics, pronouns are divided into two classes: those that can bear word stress, coined strong, full or tonal, and those that can not, coined weak, clitic, or atonal.
Ciprian-Virgil Gerstenberger
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ABSTRACT Regressive transfer has been a subject that has not been extensively researched in the field of third language acquisition. This study aims to examine the extent to which a highly advanced knowledge of a third language (L3) affects the first language (L1) and the second language (L2) of early bilinguals in light of the Differential Stability ...
Maddi Alkain Arizmendi +2 more
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The Syntax of Old Catalan Clitics: “Llibre dels Fets”
Although the distribution of pronominal clitics in Old Catalan has been described in general terms (Fischer 2002; Batllori et al. 2005), there are no quantitative studies detailing the frequency of preverbal or postverbal clitics nor their diachronic ...
Andreu Sentí, Miriam Bouzouita
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Some conceptual and empirical issues in linguistic theory : an illustration with pronominal clitics [PDF]
I would like to discuss a few general conceptual issues in linguistic theory, and see how they bear on some empirical facts about pronominal clitics. In particular, I would like to show that the conception of linguistic theory, justified on independent ...
Law, Paul
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How Flexible Are Grammars Past Puberty? The Case of Relative Clauses in Turkish‐American Returnees
Abstract How flexible are grammars after puberty? To answer this, we test returnees: heritage speakers (HS) born in an immigration context who returned to their homeland in later years. If returnees are targetlike, then language is still malleable after puberty; in contrast, if maturational effects are in play, postpuberty returnees will show ...
Aylin Coşkun Kunduz, Silvina Montrul
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The Distributed Morphology of Object Clitics in Modern French
In modern French, as in all Romance languages, the combination of two object clitics is subject to rigid ordering and co-occurrence constraints.
Goldbach Maria
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Constructions with Predicatives for Psychological States in the Bulgarian Language – Nomenclature and Differential Characteristics. The study attempts to classify the possibilities for predicative constructions in the Bulgarian language from the semantic
Stamenov, Maxim
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Clitic dislocations and clitics in French and Greek
This article focuses on Clitic Left Dislocation of XPs in French and Greek. By examining the interpretive properties of these XPs, primarily reconstruction properties, it concludes that they have been displaced from their first merge position via movement into (sometimes) a succession of hierarchically organized middle-field positions first above vP ...
Angelopoulos, Nikolaos +1 more
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