The Bantu-Romance-Greek connection revisited: Processing constraints in auxiliary and clitic placement from a cross-linguistic perspective

This paper explores a connection between Romance and Greek on the one hand, and Bantu on the other. More specifically, we look at auxiliary placement in Rangi and clitic placement in Tobler Mussafia languages, with a special emphasis on Cypriot Greek, and argue that a common explanation for their di...

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Main Authors: Stergios Chatzikyriakidis, Hannah Gibson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2017-02-01
Series:Glossa
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Online Access:http://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/135