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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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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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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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Pronominal clitics in Tsonga and Mozambican Portuguese : A comparative study. [PDF]

, 1997
This thesis contrasts the system of pronominal clitics (also known as subject and object markers) in Tsonga, a Bantu language spoken in Mozambique, with that of European Portuguese; and seeks to establish how the co-existence of the two languages in the ...
Matsinhe, S. F.
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Agreement and Null Subjects

Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2004
This paper argues that agreement is a theta-role bearer, either directly, when agreement is externally merged in a theta position, or indirectly, when it is internally merged, heading an argument chain.
Christer Platzack
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Gilaki reverse Ezafe: The two faces of a nominal linker

Syntax, Volume 27, Issue 2, Page 376-392, June 2024.
Abstract This paper examines a nominal linker (known as reverse Ezafe) in the Caspian language Gilaki. It is shown that the nominal linker in Gilaki is in fact the realization of two different morphosyntactic elements with distinct properties. In doing so, we also highlight the differences between reverse Ezafe and Ezafe, found in Persian and other ...
Arsalan Kahnemuyipour, Mansour Shabani, Sahar Taghipour   +2 more
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L2 acquisition of Spanish dative clitics by English and Dutch learners

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2017
This article examines the second language acquisition (SLA) of Spanish dative clitics in clitic doubling (CLD) structures that are closely related to the double object construction (DOC) in English and Dutch.
M. Ángeles Escobar-Álvarez
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Structural Ambiguity and the Architecture of Language1

Studia Linguistica, Volume 78, Issue 1, Page 35-63, April 2024.
Abstract This article investigates what structural ambiguity reveals about the architecture of language. It analyzes two basic types of structural ambiguity, constituent ambiguity and chain formation ambiguity, and illustrates with a small class of selected case studies how they interweave.
Jordi Fortuny
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From Latin QUO(D) VELLES to Romagnol Cvël: A Case of Degrammaticalisation from a Free‐choice Indefinite to the Noun ‘Thing’1

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 1, Page 119-150, March 2024.
Abstract Degrammaticalisation is an oft‐dismissed category of language change. In this paper evidence is provided for its existence, its triggers, and its conditions. This case study details the development of an understudied Old Italo‐Romance indefinite, covelle, a polarity‐sensitive item roughly translating as ‘anything’ which originated from a Latin
Nicola D’Antuono
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Affix Not Clitic‐Based Vowel Shortening in Modern Arabic Varieties

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 122, Issue 1, Page 1-20, March 2024.
Abstract Word formation in most languages is inextricably linked to a distinction between clitics and affixes. Although famous for its templatic morphological structure, Arabic also contains concatenative formatives some of whose status as clitics or affixes is controversial.
Emily Lindsay‐Smith
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