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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Clitics"”.
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Clitics and agreement
… ordering, and interpretation of second-position clitics may be derived in the syntax by treating the clitics as agreement heads that identify null arguments in their specifiers. In contrast to previous accounts, the need for phonological operations is drastically reduced, being restricted to …
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A theory of clitics.
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1977.
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Non-Argumental Clitics in Spanish and Galician: A Case Study of the Distribution of Solidarity and Ethical Clitics
… or non-arguments, so-called Ethical Dative Clitics (Bello 1954, Seco 1962 among others) and Solidarity Clitics (Álvarez, Rosario, X.L. Regueira & H. Monteaguedo 1986) in Spanish and Galician. This research fills an important gap in the existing formal literature on these forms, providing the …
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The Syntax and Placement of Wolof Clitics
I propose that nominal and verbal clitics be positioned relative to both the CP and TP layers of clause structure, and that there are two independent types of clitics in Wolof (XP and X0). Both clitic types are ordered due to a property of T0, and are further positioned due to requirements of the …
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Cycles of agreement: Romance clitics in diachrony
… in more detail. I show that in OldS, object clitics were full DPs and thus OldS was at stage (a) of the OAC. Based on diagnostics of coordination, modification, and movement, ModS object clitics are more deficient than OldS object clitics. Patterns of clitic doubling are evidence that …
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Morphology after syntax--pronominal clitics in romance
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1991.
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The representation of clitics in the lexicons of English-speaking learners of French
… is about a study of the properties of French clitics as they are represented in the lexicons of English-speaking students of French. The study involved 198 adult learners of French at a small, private American university. Subjects were drawn from intact groups of students enrolled in first, …
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A Longitudinal Analysis of Spanish Morphosyntactic Performance Based on Spanish-English Bilingual Exposure and Usage
… production accuracy of articles, direct object clitics and subjunctives across 4 years. Analyses of growth trajectories show that the trajectories differ by both language ability groups and morphosyntactic structures. Among the three grammatical markers, the TD group demonstrates different …
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Sign language varieties of Indonesia: A linguistic and sociolinguistic investigation.
… particles occur in both varieties, alongside clitics and the expression of completion through mouthings alone. The realisations of two variables, one lexical and one grammatical, are predicted by factors including the syntactic and functional properties of the variant, and younger Solonese …
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The L1 acquisition of clitic placement in Cypriot Greek
… language acquisition (L1A) of pronominal object clitics in Cypriot Greek (CG) by typically developing (TD) children, focusing on an exceptional form of non–adult–like clitic placement attested in early data. The aim of the present study is twofold. On the one hand, it aims to sketch the …
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La Quiero Ver~Quiero Verla: Monolingual and bilingual children's variable clitic placement
… of grammar by examining direct object clitics in contexts where either proclisis or enclisis is possible (Lo voy a ver vs. Voy a verlo). The current study examines variable clitic placement in sociolinguistic interviews conducted with 21 Spanish-English bilingual children of Mexican …
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L'Asymétrie entre L'Acquisition des Clitiques Sujets/Objets chez les Enfants francophones et L'Optionalité dans la Grammaire Enfantine
… studies of the acquisition of subject and object clitics in French-speaking children. Our reanalysis allows us to address two important questions in the domain of acquisition, namely optionality in the child’s grammar and the role of input in development. By means of an exhaustive analysis of …
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Cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese as a third language
… languages DOCs consist of structures with dative clitics and/or DPs marked for dative case by the dative case marker a, as in María le compró un regalo a Juan ‘María DAT CL bought a gift DAT case marker Juan.’ DOCs can alternate with POCs in Spanish and Portuguese as well, but there are …
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"Finite Verb Stress and Clitic Verbs in Old English ""Beowulf"
… in early Germanic and of second-position clitics in general.
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A Lexical Functional Grammar Account of Spanish Weak Dative Pronominals
… Similar elements-generally labelled as clitics- in many languages have been focus of much research in Linguistics. The present study, however, abstracts away from classic approaches that had the external form of clitics as their main focus and provides description and analysis of very …
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A psycholinguistic approach toward an instance of a language change: The case of -esh in Persian
… optional on verbs and blocking subsequent object clitics –two properties which point to its clitic origin. Through a set of experiments, this thesis is aimed at exploring how this marker is processed by native speakers and how results obtained from real-time implicit tasks (i.e., self-paced …
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Purepecha Aspirated Consonants and Their Phonetic Variants
… one argument structure changing suffix, and clitics. Aspiration is never contrastive for inflexional suffixes, which occur in word final position. There are three basic allophones of aspirated segments: (i) post-aspirated; (ii) unaspirated, (iii) pre-aspirated, with pre-aspiration showing 4 …
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Locality in A-movement
… from the literature-namely, why anaphoric clitics cannot be object clitics, I argue that Lethal Ambiguity rules out the object clitic derivation for anaphors because an anaphoric object checks Case in a multiple-specifier configuration with the would-be antecedent. I adopt a passive-like …
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Language sample analysis for Spanish speakers
… Preterit Indicative, Indirect and Direct Object Clitics, Imperfect, and Plural Nouns were the most problematic forms for English-Spanish bilinguals with LI. Clinical implications of these findings are discussed.
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Processing negative imperatives in Bulgarian : evidence from normal, aphasic and child language
… to be less resource demanding than reflexive clitics. This finding is indicative of the syntax-driven co-reference establishment processes triggered through the lexical specification of reflexive clitics. The results obtained from Bulgarian Broca's aphasics show that they exhibit processing …
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