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Towards an Integrated Model of Change: Language Contact, Dialect Contact, Internal Variation

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 3, Page 537-555, November 2025.
Abstract This article outlines an integrated model of language change, where change is viewed as the acquisition of innovative grammars by individual native speakers. It is integrated in that it shows how change that is induced by contact between languages, dialects and sociolects can be understood, alongside purely internal change, as part of a single
Christopher Lucas
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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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Romance pronominal clitics as pure heads

Journal of Linguistics, 2022
Romance clitics are currently accounted for as DP arguments moved to functional head positions or as functional heads (AccVoice, etc.) licensingpro-DPs in argument position. I take the view that clitics are first merged as heads, projecting independently motivated categories on the functional spine of the sentence (φP, ApplP).
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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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The Spanish pronominal clitic system

Proces. del Leng. Natural, 2005
Supported by CONACyT grants C092 and 39380-U.
Luis Pineda, Ivan Meza
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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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Pronominal Subject Clitics in Igbo

Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 2012
Pronominal elements in Igbo have been categorized into two types; the independent ones and the dependent, short, weak ones. Whereas the independent pronominal elements can occur both at the subject and object positions, the so-called dependent ones (which have also been analyzed as resumptive pronouns (Uwalaka, 1995)) are restricted to the subject ...
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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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