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Morphosyntactic Contact in Translation: Greek ídios and Latin proprius in the Bible

open access: yesTransactions 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
wiley   +1 more source

The Syntax of Old Catalan Clitics: “Llibre dels Fets”

open access: yesCatalan 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
doaj   +1 more source

Prominence as an anchor for a clitic: prosody-sensitive placement of the conditional subordinator ki in Kazym Khanty

open access: yesGlossa, 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
doaj   +2 more sources

THE URDU PRONOMINAL CLITICS AS CASE-MARKERS [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
THE URDU PRONOMINAL CLITICS AS CASE ...
Dr Umar-ud-Din   +2 more
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When Moldovan meets Russian

open access: yesIsogloss, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Reflexive clitics are verbal, not pronominal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
I argue that reflexive clitics are not pronominal, but verbal. Cross-linguistically, reflexive clitics can realize either an unaccusative or an unergative Voice head, both of which allow anaphoric interpretations (as suggested by the work of Reinhart ...
McGinnis, Martha
core   +1 more source

A note on subject clitics in Akan

open access: yesStudies in African Linguistics, 1998
This paper is concerned with the analysis of pronominal subject clitics (SCLs) in Akan within the Priniciples and Parameters framework of syntactic theory.
Richard Campbell
doaj   +3 more sources

Objektklitika und Informationsstrukturierung im Bulgarischen

open access: yesLinguistik Online, 2013
Auf der Grundlage der Chomskyschen Grammatiktheorie sowie der jüngsten Ergebnisse zur Informationsstrukturierung erfolgt die Untersuchung von Syntax, Morphologie und Semantik pronominaler Klitika in der bulgarischen Sprache.
Valja Janewa
doaj   +1 more source

The pronominal clitics of Logar Ormuri [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This thesis presents a description of the system of pronominal clitics in the Logar dialect of Ormuri, an Iranian language of Afghanistan and Pakistan. The Logar dialect is based in the Logar province of Afghanistan and is near to extinction.
Hawbaker, Jeremy
core   +1 more source

Pronominal Clitics in European and Brazilian Portuguese

open access: yesJournal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2005
This paper addresses two issues, the categorial nature of (pronominal) clitics and the conditions ruling their surface distribution as proclitics and enclitics, which we take as related.
Anabela Gonçalves   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

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