Clitic left dislocation and focus projection in Spanish

Discourse-sensitive clitic-doubled dislocations in heritage Spanish

This experimental study tests the predictions of the Interface Hypothesis (Sorace, 2011, 2012) using two constructions whose appropriateness depends on monitoring discourse information: Clitic Left Dislocation and Fronted Focus. Clitic Left Dislocation relates a dislocated and clitic-doubled object to an antecedent activated in previous discourse, while Fronted Focus does not relate the fronted...

The (In)Stability of Linguistic Systems 1 Running head: THE (IN) STABILITY OF LINGUISTIC SYSTEMS The (In)Stability of Linguistic Systems: Evidence from the Performance of Spanish Monolinguals, Heritage Speakers, and Second Language Learners

The present paper examines (in)stability in the interpretation and production of clauseinitial direct objects in the Spanish grammars of monolinguals, heritage speakers, and second language learners. Analysis of data obtained through two tasks indicates a developmental continuum: monolinguals most closely approximate grammatical targets in which generic DPs are fronted into a Topic position and...

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

On Linkhood, Topicalization and Clitic Left Dislocation

This paper focuses on the Information Packaging notion of linkhood and provides a structural definition of this notion for Greek. We show that a combination of structural resources – syntactic (left dislocation), morphological (clitic duplication) and phonological (absence of nuclear accent) – are simultaneously exploited to realize linkhood in Greek, a generalization that can be captured in a ...

L2 knowledge at the Mapping of Syntax and Discourse

In this article, I will present partial results of three experiments that deal with the second language (L2) acquisition of the same phenomenon: Clitic Left Dislocation (CLLD) in Spanish and Bulgarian by native English speakers. This is the phenomenon where an object that is previously mentioned in the discourse (a Topic) moves to the beginning of the sentence, and is doubled by a clitic agreei...