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Clitics in Old Serbian: What does the text of the Troyan Parable tell us?

Linguistica Brunensia
The present paper examines the diachronic development of Serbian clitics. The investigation of clitics is of special interest in Slavic languages: despite the fact that these languages display free worder, the use of clitics is subject to strict rules ...
Lilla Nikolin Dukai
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The pragmatics of pronominal clitics and propositional attitudes [PDF]

Intercultural Pragmatics, 2013
In this paper I have used pronominal clitics in Italian in combination with verbs of propositional attitude to shed light on opacity effects due to intru - sive pragmatics (at the level of free enrichments/explicatures). Certain problems discussed by Schiffer (2000) disappear completely, when the syntax, semantics and pragmatics of propositional ...
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Linguistic Diversification and Rates of Change: Insights From a Diverse Sample of Sociolinguistic Studies

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 6, November/December 2025.
ABSTRACT Language diversification and change can be studied using phylogenetic modelling of families over thousands of years, or by close observation of changes unfolding over a few decades at the community level. While the phylogenetic approach uses data from hundreds of languages to make cross‐linguistic generalisations, community‐level studies of ...
John Mansfield
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Bound person forms in ditransitive clauses revisited. [PDF]

, 2007
In a recent article Gensler (2003) has argued that little can be said about the ordering of bound person markers of the T(heme) and R(ecipient) relative to each other or relative to the verb stem apart from the fact that the outer markers are likely to ...
Bakker, Dik, Siewierska, Anna
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Correlates of Object Raising in Mayan

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 4, July/August 2025.
ABSTRACT Mayan languages show variation in the morphosyntactic distribution of absolutive objects. A now commonly‐adopted analysis ties this variation to differences in object movement and agreement. In so‐called ‘high‐absolutive’ languages, objects consistently raise to a position above the ergative subject, where they are targeted for ϕ $\phi $‐Agree
Justin Royer, Jessica Coon
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Elevação da vogal /e/ nos clíticos pronominais

Caligrama: Revista de Estudos Românicos, 2012
Resumo: O objetivo deste artigo é apresentar resultados de análise quantitativa por meio da qual se buscou identificar fatores linguísticos e extralinguísticos que favoreçam a elevação da vogal /e/ nos clíticos pronominais me, te, se e lhe.
Maria José Blaskovski Vieira
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Improving treebank-based automatic LFG induction for Spanish [PDF]

, 2006
We describe several improvements to the method of treebank-based LFG induction for Spanish from the Cast3LB treebank (O’Donovan et al., 2005). We discuss the different categories of problems encountered and present the solutions adopted.
Chrupała, Grzegorz, van Genabith, Josef
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Expanding the Typology of Absolutive Syntax in Mayan: Evidence From Northern Mam

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 3, May/June 2025.
ABSTRACT Past work on Mayan languages has divided the family into two groups based on syntactic ergativity: ‘high‐absolutive’ languages in which objects raise to a position above the ergative subject and enter into Agree with a high probe and ‘low‐absolutive’ languages in which objects remain low and enter into Agree with a low probe.
Willie Myers
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The syntax of Greek split reciprocals

Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 713-746, December 2024.
Abstract We provide the first detailed description and analysis of the syntax of the understudied Greek split reciprocal reconstruction. As in other languages, the reciprocal appears to be bipartite consisting of a quantificational distributor (‘the one’) and a reciprocator (‘the other’).
Lefteris Paparounas, Martin Salzmann
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Prosodic Change in Breton: The Loss of Stressed Clitics1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 2, Page 254-280, July 2024.
Abstract Most dialects of Breton have largely penultimate stress, and are also said to exhibit stress on certain clitics when they precede monosyllabic content words. However, data suggest that this prosodic process may not be maintained consistently by modern Breton speakers.
Holly J. Kennard
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