Ekegusii Subject and Object Markers: Affixes or Clitics?

Object Clitics and Marked Morphology

Clitics and Object Drop in Modern Greek

In this paper, I argue that Greek shows evidence of having phonetically null indefinite “special” object pronominals (meaning null, clitic-like indefinite pronominals). This claim is motivated by the similarity of a number of constructions involving indefinites to constructions involving cliticized definites. As I will show, it provides a maximally simple account of Greek indefinite object drop...

Object Clitics in Spanish and Catalan

This paper studies the properties of object pronominal clitics in Spanish and Catalan and shows that they behave very differently in several ways. Contrary to what is generally asumed, we propose that direct object clitics and indirect object clitics are two different kinds of functional categories: the direct object is considered a DP generated in an A-position, and the indirect object clitic ...

Object clitics , definite articles and genitive possessive clitics in Greek specific language impairment ( SLI

Nine Greek preschool children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) were compared to age-matched (CA) and language-matched (LA) typically-developing children on their production of a) third person object clitic pronouns, b) definite articles and c) genitive possessive clitics, through novel picture-based elicitation tasks. The aims were to examine whether these structures are impaired in Gree...

Linguistic labels: conceptual markers or object features?

Linguistic labels affect inductive generalization; however, the mechanism underlying these effects remains unclear. According to one similarity-based model, SINC (similarity, induction, naming, and categorization), early in development labels are features of objects contributing to the overall similarity of compared entities, with early induction being similarity based. If this is the case, the...