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A Syntactic-Semantic Analysis of Object Clitics and Pronouns in Ramallah Palestinian Arabic.

, 1985
This descriptive study of Palestinian Arabic, investigates the subject and object morphemes primarily from the viewpoint of morphology, syntax and semantics.
Abu Nahleh, Lamis Yacoub
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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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The Acquisition of Case in Spanish Pronominal Object Clitics in English-Speaking College-Level L2 Learners [PDF]

, 2013
The Second language acquisition (SLA) of Spanish pronominal object clitics (POCs) has been a topic of research with regards to clitic placement (Houston, 1997; Lee, 1987; LoCoco, 1987; VanPatten, 1984; and VanPatten & Houston 1998), acquiring specific ...
Olsen, Michael Kevin
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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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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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An Account of Clitics in Shabaki with Reference to Wackernagels Law [PDF]

, 2014
In this paper the behavior of clitics in Shabaki a northwestern Indo-Iranian language spoken in Nineveh plains in Iraq is discussed in detail with respect to forms and distributions and much more interestingly with respect to sensitivity to Wackernagel
Dr. Abbas H. J. Sultan
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Towards an Integrated Model of Change: Language Contact, Dialect Contact, Internal Variation

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 537-555, November 2025.
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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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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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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The syntax of Greek split reciprocals

Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 713-746, December 2024.
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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