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Isogloss, 2023 In this study, we propose a comparative analysis of the ditransitive constructions in Dialectal Brazilian Portuguese (DBP) and Colloquial Standard Brazilian Portuguese (BP), taking into consideration the phenomenon named Double Pronominalization, in ...
Heloisa Salles +1 more
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A Cyclic Agree account of the Romance faire–infinitive causative: New evidence from Catalan
Syntax, Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 183-222, June 2023., 2023 Abstract Catalan, like Italian and French, displays (notwithstanding certain complications) a pattern in causatives under facere such that the causee can be realized as dative only where its complement is “transitive.” We propose an analysis of this pattern based on Cyclic Agree.
Anna Pineda, Michelle Sheehan
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Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 1, Page 33-64, March 2023., 2023 Abstract This study explores the correlation between synchronic constructional variation shown by ditransitive verbs in Late Latin and (possible) diachronic developments, investigating the reasons why such developments did or did not occur throughout the history of this language.
Chiara Fedriani, Maria Napoli
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Generalized Phasal Defectivity in Brazilian Portuguese
Isogloss, 2022 Brazilian Portuguese displays a cluster of apparently unrelated properties that set it aside within Romance. On the one hand, it has lost its third person possessive pronouns (cf. Oliveira e Silva 1985, Perini 1985, Cerqueira 1996, and Müller 1996), its
Jairo Nunes
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Syntax, Volume 26, Issue 1, Page 1-40, March 2023., 2023 Abstract We use parasitic gaps to examine left‐branch extraction from nominal phrases in Russian. We observe that the interpretation of a parasitic gap in a context with left‐branch extraction is the same as the interpretation assigned when an entire nominal phrase is moved.
Tatiana Bondarenko, Colin Davis
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Person matters in impersonality
Syntax, Volume 25, Issue 2, Page 147-187, June 2022., 2022 Abstract The Basque impersonal is a detransitivized construction where the internal argument is the only overt argument and the external argument, although semantically present, does not have any morphological reflex. This article argues that, despite its intransitive shape, the impersonal involves a particular kind of Voice projection that we term ...
Ane Berro, Ane Odria, Beatriz Fernández
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Cuadernos de Literatura, 2020 The aim of this research is to study the use of the clitic pronouns le / les with plural referent of [+human] feature, in a written corpus of university students from the Argentina NEA region.
Hugo Roberto Wingeyer +1 more
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Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2013 This paper has a twofold aim: to present a unified analysis of ditransitive constructions and transitivity alternations (dative/accusative alternations) in Spanish.
Anna Pineda
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Amazonian Spanish, 2020 Direct object clitics in Spanish are morphological markers at the interface of syntax and phonology, morphology, semantics and information structure. We explore variability in direct object clitic doubling and argument marking in bilingual speakers of ...
Liliana Sánchez, Elisabeth Mayer
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Sigmatic plurals in Romance varieties spoken in Italy and their interaction with -i plurals
LingBaW, 2018 In Sardinian, Friulian, Rhaeto-Romance, Occitan (not considered in this work) and Franco-Provençal varieties spoken in peripheral Italian areas, the -i inflection is not totally eradicated but interacts with plural -s.
Leonardo M. Savoia +2 more
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