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How weak are Romanian clitic pronouns?

Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2022
In traditional linguistics, pronouns are divided into two classes: those that can bear word stress, coined strong, full or tonal, and those that can not, coined weak, clitic, or atonal.
Ciprian-Virgil Gerstenberger
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Too weak to be pronounced

Isogloss
In Gradient Harmonic Grammar (Smolensky & Goldrick 2016), syntactic strength is considered an inherent property of linguistic items. In this paper, I propose that syntactic strength plays a crucial role in pro-drop and in other phenomena that have often ...
Irene Amato
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Neither agreement nor pronouns

Isogloss
Baker & Kramer (2018) suggests that the distribution of clitic doubling in Spanish follows from Weak Crossover. Thus, the fact that in accusative clitic doubling bare wh-phrases cannot be doubled (e.g., *¿A quién lo viste?
Andrés Saab
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Perspective phonologique sur les pronoms

Corela, 2022
The category of pronouns, which admittedly includes several heterogeneous subcategories, is notoriously difficult to delineate. This corpus-based article examines the phonetic and phonological characteristics of various types of pronouns in a spoken ...
Stephan Wilhelm
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On Brazilian Portuguese 3rd person object full pronouns

Isogloss, 2023
It has been observed that certain overt 3rd person object pronouns, such as ‘it’ in paycheck sentences, propositional clitics in Portuguese and English, 3rd person non-propositional clitics in Catalan, Spanish, Slovenian and Serbian/Croatian may allow
Sonia Cyrino
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Cases of apparent enclisis on past participles in Romance varieties

Isogloss, 2015
This paper deals with cases of apparent enclisis on past participles in North-Western Italian varieties. It is claimed that these cases do not involve clitic pronouns, but weak pronouns in the sense of Cardinaletti and Starke (1999).
Anna Cardinaletti
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Resumptive pronouns in Tuki

Studies in African Linguistics, 1990
This paper argues that in Tuki, gaps construed with WH- or topicalized phrases are null resumptive pronouns rather than WH-traces. Gaps alternate with overt resumptive pronouns.
Edmond Biloa
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The prosody-syntax interface and the status of pronouns in Papiamentu

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2007
This paper shows that a distinction should be made between weak and strong pronouns in Papiamentu. The members of the weak series are prosodically and distributionally deficient, in contrast with those of the strong series.
Silvia Kouwenberg
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Clitics are not enough: on agreement and null subjects in Brazilian Venetan

Glossa, 2021
This paper presents some facts about the syntax of subject pronouns in contact. We investigate agreement and EPP-checking in Brazilian Venetan, a heritage northern Italo-Romance variety spoken in southern Brazil in contact with Brazilian Portuguese ...
Alberto Frasson
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Morphosyntactic Skills Influence the Written Decoding Accuracy of Italian Children With and Without Developmental Dyslexia

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Some types of developmental dyslexia (DD) are associated with morphology. Deep DD leads to morphological and semantic errors, and possible comorbidity with syntactic deficits; phonological-output-buffer DD causes problems in decoding longer ...
Emanuele Casani, Mila Vulchanova, Anna Cardinaletti   +2 more
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