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V2 and Subject-Verb Inversion in Ladin and Romansh
In this article, we analyze the order verb-(clitic) subject that characterizes Rhaeto-Romance languages in V2 and interrogative contexts. In these varieties, the subject is necessarily realized by lexical or pronominal elements in preverbal position ...
Leonardo Maria Savoia, Benedetta Baldi
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Second-position clitics and the syntax-phonology interface: The case of ancient Greek [PDF]
In this paper we discuss second position clitics in ancient Greek, which show a remarkable ability to break up syntactic constituents. We argue against attempts to capture such data in terms of a mismatch between c-structure yield and surface string and ...
Dag Haug, dmgoldstein
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Enclitic Pronouns In The Anbarāni Dialect Of Talyshi
Enclitic pronouns are used in most of New West Iranian languages. They are mainly used for marking the possessor, as well as objects, besides, those Iranian languages and dialects, which show ergative patterns, make use of enclitic pronouns for marking ...
Hakob Avchyan
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Unexpected agreement in Spanish revisited
Verbal agreement in Spanish is materialized as the rightmost morpheme on a verb. When enclitics attach, the expected order is: verbal base + AGR(eement) + CL(itic): hága-nAGR-loCL ‘Do it!’.
María Mare
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The Syntax of Clitic Placement in European Portuguese [PDF]
Dans la plupart des langues romanes, les clitiques objets apparaissent à la gauche du verbe (proclitiques); en portugais européen (PE), ils se situent à la droite (enclitiques).
Barrie, Michael
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Layers and operators in Lakota
Categories covering the expression of grammatical information such as aspect, negation, tense, mood, modality, etc., are crucial to the study of language universals.
Corral Esteban, Avelino
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Serbo-Croat Clitics and Word Grammar [PDF]
Serbo-Croat has a complex system of clitics which raise interesting problems for any theory of the interface between syntax and morphology. After summarising the data we review previous analyses (mostly within the generative tradition), all of which are ...
Hudson, Richard, Čamdžić, Amela
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ON THE ENCLITIC NE IN EARLY LATIN
Cover-title. ; Inaug. diss.--Strassburg. ; Mode of access: Internet.
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Comparative, similative and simulative expressions in Ese Ejja
This paper examines the expression of comparison in the Amazonian language Ese Ejja (Takanan) and explores both quantitative (relative (in)equality and superlativity) and qualitative comparison (similarity and simulation).
Marine Vuillermet
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