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Morphosyntactic Contact in Translation: Greek ídios and Latin proprius in the Bible
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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The Syntax of Old Catalan Clitics: “Llibre dels Fets”
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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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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THE URDU PRONOMINAL CLITICS AS CASE-MARKERS [PDF]
THE URDU PRONOMINAL CLITICS AS CASE ...
Dr Umar-ud-Din +2 more
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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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Reflexive clitics are verbal, not pronominal [PDF]
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
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A note on subject clitics in Akan
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
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Objektklitika und Informationsstrukturierung im Bulgarischen
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
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The pronominal clitics of Logar Ormuri [PDF]
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
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Pronominal Clitics in European and Brazilian Portuguese
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
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