Clitic Doubling in Vernacular Medieval Greek

The Acquisition of Clitic Objects in Modern Greek: Single Clitics, Clitic Doubling, Clitic Left Dislocation

Clitic-Agreement Doubling in Yurok

Abstract In Clitic-Agreement Doubling, Φ-features of the same verbal argument are simultaneously expressed by pronominal clitics and verbal agreement. The Algic language Yurok (Robins, 1958) exhibits CliticAgreement Doubling (CAD) in specific syntactic contexts requiring clitics in addition to agreement, but provides also strategies to avoid this type of redundancy by suppressing otherwise expe...

Clitic doubling and differential object marking

This work follows the progression of a grammatical construction that unifies the Romanian accusative preposition pe with a coreferential pronominal clitic, together forming the cd-pe construction. On the basis of historical texts, it is argued that these two grammatical phenomena evolved into a clause-level construction with a dedicated semantics and pragmatics in the modern language. A corpus ...

Medieval embryology in the vernacular: the case of De spermate

Method of healing, books 1-2. While in general this works well, at times the reader will be baffled by the complexity of a note which seems to concern a topic that develops out of the actual commentary far more than one that relates closely to what Galen himself says. Conversely, many of the Realien are passed over in silence: e.g. p. 82, just what sort of hat is a pilleus/pilos? The weakest se...

Leísta Spanish and the Syntax of Clitic Doubling

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