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Pronominal Clitics in Old Romanian: The Tobler-Mussafia Law [PDF]
, 2015 This study analyzes the position occupied by pronominal clitics in the clause with respect to the verb in old Romanian (OR) on the basis of an extensive corpus analysis of 16th - 18th century texts. The corpus analysis shows that, from the earliest texts,
Niculescu, D., Nicolae, A
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Language Learning, EarlyView.Abstract Little research has explored how language dominance may affect the development and ultimate attainment of morphosyntax in a situation of widespread and social bilingualism, where exposure to both languages starts early on and can be sustained over time.
Adriana Soto‐Corominas +2 more
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Pronominal Clitics in Tocharian: A Study in the Morphology-Syntax Interface [PDF]
, 2022 This dissertation examines the pronominal clitics of Tocharian A and B and develops a modelthat best accounts for their distribution. After reviewing the phonological, morphological, and syntactic characteristics and chief uses of the Tocharian ...
Onishi, Teigo
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract In the Jaru community of northern Western Australia, certain in‐laws and relatives are categorized as being in a highly respectful relationship in which they are expected to pay deference to one another. This conversation‐analytic study closely examines the deferential practices that are used among three Jaru siblings in an ordinary multi ...
Josua Dahmen
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THE URDU PRONOMINAL CLITICS AS CASE-MARKERS
, 2023 THE URDU PRONOMINAL CLITICS AS CASE ...
Dr Umar-ud-Din +2 more
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New Insights Into Lakota Syntax: The Encoding of Arguments and the Number of Verbal Affixes
Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.ABSTRACT This paper examines the morphosyntax of transitive constructions in Lakota, with particular emphasis being placed on the encoding of arguments. The analysis of argument marking through verbal affixes in Lakota transitive constructions raises two main questions: the existence or non‐existence of the zero marker for the third person singular and
Avelino Corral Esteban
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The Acquisition of Case in Spanish Pronominal Object Clitics in English-Speaking College-Level L2 Learners [PDF]
, 2013 The Second language acquisition (SLA) of Spanish pronominal object clitics (POCs) has been a topic of research with regards to clitic placement (Houston, 1997; Lee, 1987; LoCoco, 1987; VanPatten, 1984; and VanPatten & Houston 1998), acquiring specific ...
Olsen, Michael Kevin
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Lability in Hittite and Indo‐European: A Diachronic Perspective
Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.ABSTRACT Lability is defined as the possibility of a verb to enter a valency alternation without undergoing any change in its form. Labile verbs were common in ancient Indo‐European languages, including Hittite, which mostly features anticausative lability, with reflexive and reciprocal lability being less prominent.
Guglielmo Inglese
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Clitics in Old Serbian: What does the text of the Troyan Parable tell us?
Linguistica BrunensiaThe 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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Persian Deixis in the Flow of Conversation
Studia Linguistica, Volume 79, Issue 3, Page 469-488, December 2025.ABSTRACT This study investigates the two demonstratives in Persian conversation, namely the proximal een, “this,” and distal oun, “that,” and their plural forms, that constitute the bulk of Persian pronominal and adnominal demonstratives functioning as anaphoric, deictic, discourse‐deictic and recognitional. The data from which these demonstratives are
Hossein Shokouhi
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