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On parallels and differences between clitic climbing and long scrambling & the economy of derivations [PDF]

, 1995
In this paper I show that Clitic Climbing (CC) in Spanish and Long Scrambling (LS) in German (and Polish) are (im-)possible out of the same environments.
Sabel, Joachim
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The prosody of German clitics [PDF]

, 1996
In this paper I discuss the prosodic representation of clitics in Standard German and in some German dialects.The paper is organized as follows: first, I introduce the assumptions on clitics this paper is based on.
Kleinhenz, Ursula
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Clitics

, 2012
In most languages we find 'little words' which resemble a full word, but which cannot stand on their own. Instead they have to 'lean on' a neighbouring word, like the 'd, 've and unstressed 'em of Kim'd've helped'em ('Kim would have helped them'). These are clitics, and they are found in most of the world's languages. In English the clitic forms appear
Luís, Ana R., Spencer, Andrew
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Italian Clitics

, 2009
This text was written for the Enciclopedia dell italiano. It describes and analyses the clitic pronouns of Italian from a lexicalistic and feature-based perspective.
Schwarze, Christoph
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Overt, Omitted and Cliticized Structural Arguments in Preschool Speakers of Serbian Dialectal Varieties

Balcania et Slavia
The paper explores two hypotheses: that the acquisition of clitics in Serbo-Croatian includes a stage in which children generalize pro as the uninflected clitic pronoun for both subjects and direct objects, before acquiring the inflection for the ...
Arsenijević, Boban
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Arbitrary SE and accusative clitics in Catalan

Isogloss
This paper is dedicated to co-occurrence restrictions induced by accusative clitics in contexts containing the se marker with arbitrary interpretations.
Monica Irimia, Anna Pineda
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Clitics

, 2013
Clitics have given rise to an enormous number of studies. In particular, they have been (and still are) an extremely popular topic of research in various versions of generative grammar, including Minimalism, and other formal theories such as Optimality ...
LURAGHI, SILVIA
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V-Movement, subject clitics, and inversion

Isogloss
Building on new evidence from Bolognese, this paper proposes an account for the appearance and distribution of φ-related subject clitics both within and among Gallo-Italic grammars that relies only on independently motivated mechanisms.
Edward Rubin
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A Phase Approach to Spanish Object Clitics [PDF]

, 2015
In light of recent attempts to revive the operation of syntactic head movement and clitic movement in Phase Theory (Roberts 2010a, 2012), we argue that object clitics are underlyingly determiners in the syntax.
Romain, Ian James
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French subject clitics are not agreement markers [PDF]

, 2005
In spite of the substantial literature dedicated to it, the status of French subject clitics is still an unresolved issue within morpho-syntactic theory.
De Cat, C., Cécile De Cat
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