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The Distributed Morphology of Object Clitics in Modern French

Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2007
In modern French, as in all Romance languages, the combination of two object clitics is subject to rigid ordering and co-occurrence constraints.
Goldbach Maria
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Vestigial ergativity in Shughni: At the intersection of alignment, clitic doubling, and feature-driven movement

Glossa, 2020
This paper provides an account of two related aspects of the past-tense morphosyntax of Shughni (Eastern Iranian): (i) the use of second-position clitics, rather than the verbal suffixes of the present tense, to index past-tense subjects’ φ-features; and
Clinton Parker
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Object Omission in Contact: Object Clitics and Definite Articles in the West Thracian Greek (Evros) Dialect

Journal of Language Contact, 2019
We examine spontaneous production data from the dialect of Modern West Thracian Greek (mwtg) (the local dialect of Evros) with regard to a hypothesis of syntactic borrowing of verbal transitivity.
N. Lavidas, I. Tsimpli
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On Convergence, Ongoing Language Change, and Crosslinguistic Influence in Direct Object Expression in Catalan–Spanish Bilingualism

Languages, 2018
The present study explores two morphological differences in direct object expression between Spanish and Catalan: Differential Object Marking (DOM), and the accusative clitics el /l/ vs. ho /u/.
Silvia Perpiñán
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An Investigation of Ergative Construction in Targhy Accent of Rajy Dialect from Distributed Morphology Viewpoint [PDF]

زبان پژوهی, 2022
Ergative construction (EC) as a subtle characteristic of Iranian languages and dialects has massively fostered a large body of research in the literature over previous decades.
Tayebeh Asadi Mofarah, Mozhgan Asghary Targhy   +1 more
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Enclisis, mesoclisis and inflection in Italo-Romance varieties: A minimalist analysis

LingBaW, 2023
This contribution addresses a central theme in morphological analysis, namely the relationship between clitics and inflectional elements. Important contributions on the point are due to Anderson (1992) and Marantz (1988), who, in different ways, connect
Leonardo M. Savoia, Benedetta Baldi
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Clitics that Don't Climb

Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2019
In this article the behavior of clitics in subject- versus object-control infinitival constructions is explained by arguing that the two constructions have different structures.
Martina Gračanin-Yuksek
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Object Person Marking in two under-represented Spanish dialects of Mexico

Isogloss, 2023
This paper is about a clitic-like form lo that appears in two under-studied dialects of Mexico in the context of transitive clauses. The distribution of this clitic-like form in these dialects is at odds with Standard Mexican Spanish which does not ...
Renato García González, José Fernando Chapa Barrios   +1 more
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Pronominal Clitics in Persian: A Distributed Morphology Approach [PDF]

نشریه پژوهش‌های زبان‌شناسی
Persian independent pronouns can be considered as the head of noun phrases) Shaghaghi, 2015). However, the head of the noun phrase with a prepositional phrase (preposition + pronominal clitic) can be occupied by a pronominal clitic.
Hannah Hosseini, Shoja Tafakkori Rezayi, Amer Gheitury   +2 more
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Intervention effects in Catalan agrammatism

Glossa, 2022
The goal of the present study is to test the agrammatic comprehension of clitic left dislocation and contrastive focus in Catalan, in order to evaluate the Generalised Minimality hypothesis of Grillo (2009).
Anna Gavarró, Io Salmons
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