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Exploring Subject Markers and Object Clitics Errors in Spoken Arabic: A Case Study of Children with and without Developmental Language Disorder

Forum for Linguistic Studies
This study delves into the morphosyntactic challenges faced by Palestinian Arabic-speaking children, specifically focusing on conjugational subject markers and pronominal object clitics in those with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) compared to ...
Naila Tallas-Mahajna
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Object Clitic Omission: Two Language Types

Language Acquisition, 2010
The literature generally assumes that object clitic omission is equally allowed in all child languages. In this paper we challenge this claim by means of an elicitation experiment carried out with children acquiring two closely related languages, Catalan and Spanish. Our results show that while omission is high in young Catalan-speaking children, it is
Anna Gavarró, Vicenç Torrens, Ken Wexler   +2 more
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Object clitics

2016
Abstract The main goal of this chapter is to critically address from a comparative perspective some of the most important issues regarding the syntax of Romance objects clitics. The chapter covers such areas as distribution, licensing, and co-occurrence of different classes of object clitic; distribution of proclisis, enclisis, and ...
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Clitic doubling and differential object marking

Constructions and Frames, 2015
This work follows the progression of a grammatical construction that unifies the Romanian accusative preposition pe with a coreferential pronominal clitic, together forming the cd-pe construction. On the basis of historical texts, it is argued that these two grammatical phenomena evolved into a clause-level construction with a dedicated semantics and ...
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French Object Clitics in the Interlanguage: A Linguistic Description and a Formal Analysis in the ACCG Framework

International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence, 2022
Amina Affes, Ismaïl Biskri, A. Jebali
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Novel Experiencer‐Object Verbs and Clitic Doubling

Syntax, 2019
AbstractThis article discusses novel experiencer‐object verbs (NEOs) and proposes to align their syntax as well as the syntax of nonagentive experiencer‐object verbs to the syntax of verbs undergoing the causative alternation under similar restrictions.
Artemis Alexiadou, Elena Anagnostopoulou
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Lexicalization of 3rd person object clitics: clitic enclisis and clitic drop

2010
The data considered in this article illustrate the subtle variation that typically surfaces when the empirical sample includes a sufficient number of related languages, which share a similar grammar and differ from one another in minimal morpholexical choices.
SAVOIA, LEONARDO MARIA, MANZINI, MARIA RITA   +1 more
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An object clitic projection in Mandarin Chinese

Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 1995
This paper argues that the clausal structure of Mandarin Chinese contains an object clitic projection (SuoP). The discussion is based on the syntactic behavior of the particlesuo, which occurs when syntactic movement of an accusative NP has occurred.Suo is triggered when the movement has proceeded through SpecSuoP. Drawing the evidence fromsuo, I argue
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Processing of object clitics in Italian monolingual children.

2020
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Arosio, F, Persici, V, Pagliarini, E
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Direct Object Clitic Doubling in Albanian and Greek

2000
Abstract A pervasive phenomenon in the languages of the Balkan is that of clitic doubling. This study investigates clitic doubling of direct objects in two of these languages: Albanian and Greek (MGrk). This undertaking is motivated by the need to gain deeper insight into the nature of clitic doubling constructions and in turn ...
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