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Summary: Clitic pronouns represent one of the most idiosyncratic properties of Catalan due to their polymorphism as well as to their syntactic and discursive functions.
Mònica Tarrés Larrègola, Aurora Bel
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Towards an Integrated Model of Change: Language Contact, Dialect Contact, Internal Variation
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
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Speaker self-profiling through discursive indexation and syntactic encoding in Spanish radio talk
Syntactic and discursive choices in context can constitute resources for the interactional profiling of the direct participants. This study analyzes the frequencies with which speakers index themselves, as well as the syntactic functions they preferably ...
Miguel A. Aijón Oliva
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The syntax of Greek split reciprocals
Abstract We provide the first detailed description and analysis of the syntax of the understudied Greek split reciprocal reconstruction. As in other languages, the reciprocal appears to be bipartite consisting of a quantificational distributor (‘the one’) and a reciprocator (‘the other’).
Lefteris Paparounas, Martin Salzmann
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Tipos de MDO en los verbos psicológicos del español
RESUMEN. En el presente artículo se pretende argumentar la necesidad de establecer una distinción entre diferentes instancias de Marcado Diferencial de Objeto (MDO) en los verbos psicológicos de sujeto experimentante en español.
Bárbara Marqueta Gracia
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Obligatory dative clitic doubling in Spanish
This study investigates the phenomenon of obligatory dative doubling, examining data based upon a critique of two analyses of clitic doubling in Spanish within cdfferent grammatical frameworks. Previous analyses propose that dative clitic doubling is obligatory whenever the Noun Phrase in indirect position is not a semantic Recipient/Addressee (Goal ...
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Apie lietuvių senųjų raštų atoninę įvardžio formą te ‘tave’
ABOUT THE ATONIC FORM OF 2 SG. ACC. te IN THE OLD LITHUANIAN TEXTSSummaryIn the old Lithuanian texts the atonic form gen., dat., acc. m(i), t(i) (Zinkevičius 1981, 49) is also used alongside the orthotonic genitive, dative and accusative forms of the ...
Auksė Razanovaitė
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Syntactic Analysis of Urdu Case Clitics as Postpositions in Comparison with English Prepositions
The differences between Urdu and English pose many challenges for learners in Pakistan. One of them is the functioning of ‘Urdu case clitics as postpositions in comparison with English prepositions’.
Sana Hashmi
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AN ARGUMENT FOR NON‐AGREE‐DRIVEN MOVEMENT
Abstract This paper argues for the occurrence of movement that is not the by‐product of an Agree relation in which a probe searches for a goal. The hypothesis that not all instances of movement might be feature‐driven was entertained in early Minimalism, but it has nevertheless become widely assumed that all instances of syntactic movement should be ...
Saurov Syed, Andrew Simpson
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A look at High Applicatives in Romanian: dative experiencers
Romanian has both Low Applicative Phrases and High Applicative Phrases. At present, Romanian dative experiencers are High Applicatives with a dative phrase as specifier, and an (obligatory) dative clitic as head.
María Luisa Rivero
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