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Deletion of Reflexive Clitics with the Verb Custar in European Portuguese: An MTC Account

open access: yesJournal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2017
The impersonal verb custar (lit. ‘cost’) in European Portuguese selects for a dative experiencer argument and an infinitival clause, which may be preceded by the preposition a.
Ana Maria Martins, Jairo Nunes
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Commitment datives

open access: yesIsogloss
In this paper we argue for a division in the category of ethical datives by identifying a new type of dative: the commitment dative. These datives are clitics that appear in directive sentences, always refer to the speaker, have no effect on the at ...
Olga Borik, Ismael Teomiro
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Brazilian Venetan is going leísta

open access: yesIsogloss, 2023
This paper discusses language variation in heritage languages, focussing on a peculiar use of the dative clitic ghe in Brazilian Venetan, a heritage northern Italo-Romance variety. Corpus data and grammaticality judgments by native speakers showed that,
Alberto Frasson
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Persons and Pronouns: Exploring Clitics in Judeo-Spanish

open access: yesIsogloss, 2022
Optional versus obligatory clitic doubling and the person-case constraint (PCC) repair constitute two puzzles researchers haven’t fully addressed.
Naomi Kurtz
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Mediální konstrukce v češtině a v italštině [PDF]

open access: yesČasopis pro Moderní Filologii, 2023
The paper is devoted to a family of constructions in Czech and Italian that are reminiscent of the verbal category of Indo-European Middle, which, besides the active voice, was the second voice and expressed agency/state as subjective. As far as Czech is
Anna Maria Perissutti
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A CONTRIBUTION TO THE SEMANTIC CHARACTERIZATION OF DATIVE PREDICATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS DENOTING MENTAL EXPERIENCES

open access: yesJournal of Bulgarian Language, 2022
The article presents and interprets the constructions consisting of a predicative referring to inner human experiences and a dative clitic denoting the human that experiences them.
Maxim Stamenov
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Clitic placement at the syntax‐phonology interface: A case study of Berber*

open access: yesStudia Linguistica, Volume 77, Issue 3, Page 615-651, December 2023., 2023
Abstract Berber1 clitics are argued to follow the main verb but may appear in a position preceding the verb in the presence of a Complementiser, Negation or Tense. However, there are cases involving a subset of these categories yet the clitics still follow the verb.
Abdelhak El Hankari
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Morphosyntactic Contact in Translation: Greek ídios and Latin proprius in the Bible

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 404-426, November 2023., 2023
Abstract We investigate the possibility that contact with Greek through the translation of biblical texts may have played a role in the development of Latin proprius ‘personal’, ‘peculiar’ into a reflexive possessive adjective. A few centuries earlier, post‐Classical Greek witnesses a similar development with the adjective ídios ‘private’, ‘personal ...
Marina Benedetti, Chiara Gianollo
wiley   +1 more source

Systems of pronominal enclitics in old russian language of 14th and 15th centuries (with testaments and treaties of princes of North-Eastern Rus’) [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология, 2018
The Standard Russian language has completely lost the system of pronominal enclitics, but it did exist in Old Russian. This article deals with systems of pronominal enclitics attested in testaments and treaties of princes of North-Eastern Rus’.
Ksenia Doikina
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Boosting Bilingual Metalinguistic Awareness Under Dual Language Activation: Some Implications for Bilingual Education

open access: yesLanguage Learning, Volume 73, Issue 3, Page 683-722, September 2023., 2023
Abstract Most studies on bilingual children's metalinguistic awareness assess metalinguistic awareness using monolingual tasks. This may not reflect how a bilingual's languages dynamically interact with each other in creating metalinguistic representations.
Jacopo Torregrossa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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