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Acquisition of Pronominal Clitics in Romanian

Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2006
This paper uses new evidence from elicited production experiments to establish that Romanian children do not omit either direct or indirect object clitics at a significant rate.
Maria Babyonyshev, Stefania Marin
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On the depronominalization of les in peninsular Spanish [PDF]

Estudios Interlingüísticos, 2019
he use of the singular dative clitic “le” in contexts where the plural form “les” should be used (usually known as “depronominalization”) is a well-known and documented phenomenon in Spanish.
Irati Hurtado Ruiz
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Kinship‐based deference among Jaru siblings: A collaborative, adaptive, and multimodal accomplishment

Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.
Abstract In the Jaru community of northern Western Australia, certain in‐laws and relatives are categorized as being in a highly respectful relationship in which they are expected to pay deference to one another. This conversation‐analytic study closely examines the deferential practices that are used among three Jaru siblings in an ordinary multi ...
Josua Dahmen
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New Insights Into Lakota Syntax: The Encoding of Arguments and the Number of Verbal Affixes

Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the morphosyntax of transitive constructions in Lakota, with particular emphasis being placed on the encoding of arguments. The analysis of argument marking through verbal affixes in Lakota transitive constructions raises two main questions: the existence or non‐existence of the zero marker for the third person singular and
Avelino Corral Esteban
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Neither agreement nor pronouns

Isogloss
Baker & Kramer (2018) suggests that the distribution of clitic doubling in Spanish follows from Weak Crossover. Thus, the fact that in accusative clitic doubling bare wh-phrases cannot be doubled (e.g., *¿A quién lo viste?
Andrés Saab
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Lability in Hittite and Indo‐European: A Diachronic Perspective

Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Lability is defined as the possibility of a verb to enter a valency alternation without undergoing any change in its form. Labile verbs were common in ancient Indo‐European languages, including Hittite, which mostly features anticausative lability, with reflexive and reciprocal lability being less prominent.
Guglielmo Inglese
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Élargissement de la valence verbale — Les verbes causatifs et semi-causatifs et le problème de la pronominalisation des compléments argumentaux // The widering of the verbal valence — the causative and semi-causative verbs and the problem of argument pronominalization [PDF]

Svět Literatury, 2015
The causative and semi-causative periphrases represent a syntactic context in the framework of which the valence of a predicate is modified. Its redefinition generates new stematics by fusionning two autonomous argumental structures. For each causative
Jiří Jančík
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Persian Deixis in the Flow of Conversation

Studia 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
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3rd person possessives: Old Portuguese and Modern Brazilian Portuguese

Filologia e Linguística Portuguesa, 2014
This paper addresses some comparative aspects of the 3rd person possessive pronouns seu and dele in Modern Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and Old Portuguese (OP).
Maria Aparecida Torres Morais , Ilza Ribeiro   +1 more
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Formal Consequences of Dative Clitic Doubling in Bulgarian Ditransitives: An Applicative Analysis [PDF]

Journal of Slavic Linguistics, 2008
This paper demonstrates that the Double Object Construction exists in Bulgarian, a fact that has so far escaped notice due to the disguise in which the construction appears. Bulgarian is a language that allows an indirect object to be optionally doubled by a dative clitic.
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