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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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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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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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A Brief Study of Clitics in English Linguistics
Journal of Social Sciences and HumanitiesThis research article comprehensively analyzes English clitics and the process of cliticization. The cliticization process explores clitics' linguistic significance and functional roles, which are linguistic elements that share characteristics with both
Mohammad Hamid Asir
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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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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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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Parameter Hierarchies and Language Contact: The Present Perfect in Ecuadorian Spanish1
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores the hypothesis that the ‘fine‐grained’ grammatical differences that adult grammars under contact are said to be sensitive to (e.g., Hicks et al. 2023) amount to micro/nanoparametric distinctions, in the sense of Roberts (2019).
Norma Schifano
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Serbo-Croat Clitics and Word Grammar [PDF]
, 2007 Serbo-Croat has a complex system of clitics which raise interesting problems for any theory of the interface between syntax and morphology. After summarising the data we review previous analyses (mostly within the generative tradition), all of which are ...
Čamdžić, Amela +3 more
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International 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
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