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Morphosyntactic Contact in Translation: Greek ídios and Latin proprius in the Bible
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 404-426, November 2023., 2023 Abstract We investigate the possibility that contact with Greek through the translation of biblical texts may have played a role in the development of Latin proprius ‘personal’, ‘peculiar’ into a reflexive possessive adjective. A few centuries earlier, post‐Classical Greek witnesses a similar development with the adjective ídios ‘private’, ‘personal ...
Marina Benedetti, Chiara Gianollo
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How weak are Romanian clitic pronouns?
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2022 In traditional linguistics, pronouns are divided into two classes: those that can bear word stress, coined strong, full or tonal, and those that can not, coined weak, clitic, or atonal.
Ciprian-Virgil Gerstenberger
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Agree and the subjects of specificational clauses
Syntax, Volume 26, Issue 3, Page 251-279, September 2023., 2023 Abstract This article investigates agreement in Persian sentences with a specificational copular clause embedded under the epistemic modal tavānestan ‘can’. We argue that this structure is a raising structure. It exhibits agreement on both the embedded and modal verbs.
Susana Bejar, Arsalan Kahnemuyipour
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The specifier–head relationship: negation and French subject proforms [PDF]
, 2007 This article1 and the three others in this thematic collection are about heads and specifiers, the relationship between them, and how this relationship can change over time.
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Pronominal Clitics as Particles
Journal of Bulgarian Language, 2023 In the course of the historical development of Bulgarian the short pronominal forms (clitics) have undergone various morphological transformations and have expanded their use. As a result, they may have a different morphological status: pronouns (personal or possessive) and particles with different functions.
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PARTICULAR FEATURES OF ISTRO-ROMANIAN PRONOMINAL CLITICS
Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2020 Particular Features of Istro-Romanian Pronominal Clitics. Istro-Romanian is a ‘historical dialect’ of Romanian, a severely endangered linguistic variety, spoken in the Istrian peninsula (Croatia) as an endogenous language, and in USA and Canada as an ...
Adina DRAGOMIRESCU, Alexandru NICOLAE
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The Syntax of Old Catalan Clitics: “Llibre dels Fets”
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2022 Although the distribution of pronominal clitics in Old Catalan has been described in general terms (Fischer 2002; Batllori et al. 2005), there are no quantitative studies detailing the frequency of preverbal or postverbal clitics nor their diachronic ...
Andreu Sentí, Miriam Bouzouita
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Glossa, 2023 Research on clitics usually distinguishes between syntactic and phonological clitics (e.g. Embick & Noyer 2001; Anderson 2005). The latter ones are treated as highly locally restricted (Embick & Noyer 2001): they can be dislocated to the nearest ...
Aleksandra Belkind
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On “free” grammatical variation in a mixed lect: Clitic placement in Cypriot Greek
Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2021 Variation involving a switch between pre- and post-verbal placement of pronominal object clitics in a single syntactic environment within a language is unexpected.
Grohmann Kleanthes K. +3 more
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Isogloss, 2023 This article offers an analysis of Moldovan complex predicates, focusing on the differences between structures with aspectuals and modals. It is shown that, under the influence of Russian, a minor pattern found in old Moldovan, whereby aspectuals and ...
Ștefania Costea
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