On the nature of Romanian pronominal clitics
In this paper we discuss a range of properties which rank Romanian very high in the agreement continuum argued for by Franco (2000). This would allow us to argue that Romanian pronominal clitics are advanced in the process of acquiring the status of ...
Alina Tigău
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Strong pronouns and clitic pronouns in brazilian portuguese and french
Clitic pronouns generally correspond to verbal arguments and depend on a verbal base to support them, which is one of the reasons why they cannot occur as isolated elements in a sentence, contrary to what can be verified for strong pronouns and DPs and ...
Luciano de Oliveira
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Systems of pronominal enclitics in old russian language of 14th and 15th centuries (with testaments and treaties of princes of North-Eastern Rus’) [PDF]
The Standard Russian language has completely lost the system of pronominal enclitics, but it did exist in Old Russian. This article deals with systems of pronominal enclitics attested in testaments and treaties of princes of North-Eastern Rus’.
Ksenia Doikina
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Phonological allomorphy in Swahili on the form of inanimate pronominal clitics
Swahili has two forms of inanimate pronominal clitics. One, like the relative pronouns, typically ends with /o/ and the other, like the subject agreement affixes, are never /o/ final.
Camillia N. Barrett-Keach
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Clitics are not enough: on agreement and null subjects in Brazilian Venetan
This paper presents some facts about the syntax of subject pronouns in contact. We investigate agreement and EPP-checking in Brazilian Venetan, a heritage northern Italo-Romance variety spoken in southern Brazil in contact with Brazilian Portuguese ...
Alberto Frasson
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Klitik Klausa Pasif Bahasa Manggarai Dialek Barat Buha Aritonang
Clitics is one of the language systems retained in the Western dialect of Manggarai. The clitics in that language is a bound form that phonologically has no stress and its form can not be regarded as a bound morpheme. To analyze it is used clitics theory.
Buha Aritonang
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Focus position below TP in Standard Arabic [PDF]
Purpose – Adopting the split complementizer phrase (CP) hypothesis, the paper aims at providing an account for object cliticization in Standard Arabic (SA) as an instance of object displacement.
Abdulkhaliq Alazzawie +1 more
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A HYBRID ANALYSIS OF THE FRENCH PRONOUN EN*
Abstract This paper puts forward a novel account of the clitic pronoun en in French. It is shown that previous analyses cannot account for the rich nominal structure involved in en‐pronominalization, in particular structures with stranded DP‐internal remnants.
Eirik Hvidsten
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Clitic placement at the syntax‐phonology interface: A case study of Berber*
Abstract Berber1 clitics are argued to follow the main verb but may appear in a position preceding the verb in the presence of a Complementiser, Negation or Tense. However, there are cases involving a subset of these categories yet the clitics still follow the verb.
Abdelhak El Hankari
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French de and en as expressions of the genitive case: a unified analysis within LFG and computational implementation in XLE [PDF]
The French clitic pro-form en represents a wide range of heterogeneous constituents: de-PP complements and adjuncts, partitive objects, and prepositionless objects of cardinals.
Leonel Figueiredo de Alencar +1 more
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