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The Acquisition of Case in Spanish Pronominal Object Clitics in English-Speaking College-Level L2 Learners [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The Second language acquisition (SLA) of Spanish pronominal object clitics (POCs) has been a topic of research with regards to clitic placement (Houston, 1997; Lee, 1987; LoCoco, 1987; VanPatten, 1984; and VanPatten & Houston 1998), acquiring specific ...
Olsen, Michael Kevin
core  

ReChat: A Task‐Based Chatbot for EV Charging Management Optimization

open access: yesIET Intelligent Transport Systems, Volume 20, Issue 1, January/December 2026.
ReChat is a multilingual task‐based chatbot for EV charging management, combining supervised intent classification with a deterministic and safe task‐to‐action mapping. Experiments on six languages and an end‐to‐end Telegram prototype validate its monitoring and control capabilities.
Pablo Donate   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Persian Deixis in the Flow of Conversation

open access: yesStudia Linguistica, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 469-488, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the two demonstratives in Persian conversation, namely the proximal een, “this,” and distal oun, “that,” and their plural forms, that constitute the bulk of Persian pronominal and adnominal demonstratives functioning as anaphoric, deictic, discourse‐deictic and recognitional. The data from which these demonstratives are
Hossein Shokouhi
wiley   +1 more source

Serbo-Croat Clitics and Word Grammar [PDF]

open access: yes, 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
core   +2 more sources

Towards an Integrated Model of Change: Language Contact, Dialect Contact, Internal Variation

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 537-555, November 2025.
Abstract This article outlines an integrated model of language change, where change is viewed as the acquisition of innovative grammars by individual native speakers. It is integrated in that it shows how change that is induced by contact between languages, dialects and sociolects can be understood, alongside purely internal change, as part of a single
Christopher Lucas
wiley   +1 more source

Clitics, case and word order in Yagua [PDF]

open access: yes, 1988
From the introduction: [...] Clitics which double objects in Yagua are called Set II clitics. All other clitics are referred to as Set I clitics. In this paper, I argue that the relationship between Set I clitics and Set II clitics, and the effect of ...
Everett, Daniel L.
core   +1 more source

“Move vs. Agree”: the case of Clitic Doubling [PDF]

open access: yesBucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2012
This paper continues the long-standing discussion whether clitics in clitic doubling constructionsshould be regarded as being similar to affixes expressing subject-verb agreement or rather as reflexes ofmovement.
Mihaela Adriana Marchis
doaj   +1 more source

Brazilian portuguese prepositional clitics prosodization: what do writing data reveal?

open access: yesRaído, 2017
The purpose of this paper is to analyses hyposegmentations (e.g. “de novo” to “de novo”) and hypersegmentations (e.g. “de pois” to “de pois”) with the aim to discuss how these data structure reveal clues related to prepositional clitics prosodization of ...
Lilian Maria da Silva
doaj  

Linguistic Diversification and Rates of Change: Insights From a Diverse Sample of Sociolinguistic Studies

open access: yesLanguage and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 6, November/December 2025.
ABSTRACT Language diversification and change can be studied using phylogenetic modelling of families over thousands of years, or by close observation of changes unfolding over a few decades at the community level. While the phylogenetic approach uses data from hundreds of languages to make cross‐linguistic generalisations, community‐level studies of ...
John Mansfield
wiley   +1 more source

Clitics

open access: yes
Manzini i Savoia (1999, 2001a, 2001b, en premsa) defensen que els fenòmens bàsics que afecten les seqüències de clítics s'expliquen millor només fent referència a un component sintàctic minimalista, és a dir, sense fer ús d'un component morfològic especialitzat o comparacions dins el marc de l'Optimitat entre derivacions i representacions.
Manzini, Rita, Savoia, Leonardo M.
openaire   +3 more sources

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