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Gender Agreement in a Language Contact Situation

open access: yesLanguages, 2022
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
doaj   +1 more source

The Syntactic Status of Subject Clitics: A Problem from Venetan SE‐Constructions

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

How weak are Romanian clitic pronouns?

open access: yesNordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2022
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
doaj   +1 more source

L3 Regressive Transfer: A Study of Null Objects in the Basque and Spanish Grammars of Advanced L3 English Speakers

open access: yesInternational Journal of Applied Linguistics, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

The Syntax of Old Catalan Clitics: “Llibre dels Fets”

open access: yesCatalan Journal of Linguistics, 2022
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
doaj   +1 more source

Some conceptual and empirical issues in linguistic theory : an illustration with pronominal clitics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
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

open access: yesLanguage Learning, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

The Distributed Morphology of Object Clitics in Modern French

open access: yesZeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2007
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
doaj   +1 more source

Конструкциите с предикативи за психически състояния в българския език - номенклатура и диференциални характеристики

open access: yesZeszyty Cyrylo-Metodiańskie, 2021
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
doaj   +1 more source

Clitic dislocations and clitics in French and Greek

open access: yesNatural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2021
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
openaire   +1 more source

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