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Focus position below TP in Standard Arabic [PDF]
Saudi Journal of Language Studies, 2022 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*
Studia Linguistica, Volume 77, Issue 3, Page 561-614, December 2023., 2023 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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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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French de and en as expressions of the genitive case: a unified analysis within LFG and computational implementation in XLE [PDF]
DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2021 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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Clitic placement at the syntax‐phonology interface: A case study of Berber*
Studia Linguistica, Volume 77, Issue 3, Page 615-651, December 2023., 2023 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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Pronominal Clitics in Persian: A Distributed Morphology Approach [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسیPersian 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 +2 more
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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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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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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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