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L'émergence des parlers créoles et l'évolution des langues romanes
Études Créoles, 2016 In this article, I revisit two apparently conflicting positions about similarities between the emergence of French creoles and that of the Romance languages.
Salikoko S. Mufwene
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Enclisis, mesoclisis and inflection in Italo-Romance varieties: A minimalist analysis
Linguistics Beyond and Within (LingBaW), 2023 This contribution addresses a central theme in morphological analysis, namely the relationship between clitics and inflectional elements. Important contributions on the point are due to Anderson (1992) and Marantz (1988), who, in different ways, connect clitics and affixes.
Leonardo Maria Savoia, Benedetta Baldi
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From verbal prefixes to direction/result markers in Romance
Linguistica, 2011 In this paper I analyze verb-locative constructions in Romance. Even though not allowed in standard Romance languages, which have maintained and codified the classical Latin prefix system, these constructions are widely attested in non standard varieties,
Patrizia Cordin
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(Negative) Polarity Items in Catalan and Other Trans-Pyrenean Romance Languages
Languages, 2022 This paper identifies the set of properties that polarity items (PI), negative polarity items (NPI) and negative concord items (NCI) satisfy in Catalan, Aragonese, Benasquese and Occitan. It shows that in Catalan, gaire ‘much, many’ is a PI, pas ‘at all’
M.Teresa Espinal, Ares Llop
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Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2019 Practically all Romance languages have complement clitic pronouns which basically replace the arguments of a verb. Only a sub-area of Romance, extending from France through northern Italy to the Adriatic Sea, also has subject clitics, connected to the ...
Paola Benincà
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Embedded verb second in north-eastern Italy
IsoglossIn this work, we put forth the observation that some V2 languages are sensitive to the category of the XP moved in first position, only in cases of embedded V2, but not in main clause V2. This shows: a) that embedded V2 can be different from main clause
Nicola D'Antuono +9 more
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LanguagesGrammaticalization has long been understood as a process that takes place gradually, but within it, discrete and abrupt changes take place. This tension has been reconciled by claiming that the semblance of a gradual process is given by different parts ...
Sandra Paoli
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Stressed Clitic Pronouns in Two Spanish Varieties: A perception study
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2019 Clitic elements are prosodically attached to another phonological word. As such, they do not carry their own stress. In general, Spanish non-prepositional object pronouns (e.g.
Laura Colantoni +2 more
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Clitic syntax in areal linguistics
IsoglossIn this study, we present the results of a linguistic survey conducted using AlpiLinK, a corpus of crowdsourced data, to highlight the potential of such a tool when dealing with areal contact. The data concern the syntax of clitics and prodrop phenomena
Romano Madaro +3 more
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Ways of being a dative across Romance varieties
, 2020 In this article, we argue that the term dative can correspond to objects of a very different linguistic nature, even in typologically close languages. Specifically, in syntactic terms datives can be different from accusatives or identical to them at some point in the derivation; in the latter case, clashes between 3rd person clitics emerge.
Fábregas, Antonio, Cabré, Teresa
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