On the nature of Romanian pronominal clitics
In this paper we discuss a range of properties which rank Romanian very high in the agreement continuum argued for by Franco (2000). This would allow us to argue that Romanian pronominal clitics are advanced in the process of acquiring the status of verbal inflection. Thus the clitic could be consid...
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doaj-dee4efb385424374ba5f194fa765c32a2020-11-25T00:09:33ZengEditura Universitatii din BucurestiBucharest Working Papers in Linguistics 2069-92392007-01-01IX1109123On the nature of Romanian pronominal cliticsAlina TigăuIn this paper we discuss a range of properties which rank Romanian very high in the agreement continuum argued for by Franco (2000). This would allow us to argue that Romanian pronominal clitics are advanced in the process of acquiring the status of verbal inflection. Thus the clitic could be considered an agreement marker which checks the uninterpretable features of the [T+v+V] head. The clitic spells out a D feature and also the phi-features of the T head. http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/index.pl/on_the_nature_of_romanian_pronominal_cliticscliticsverbal inflectionagreement markerD featurephi-features of T |
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On the nature of Romanian pronominal clitics |
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On the nature of Romanian pronominal clitics |
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On the nature of Romanian pronominal clitics |
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On the nature of Romanian pronominal clitics |
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On the nature of Romanian pronominal clitics |
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Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti |
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Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics |
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In this paper we discuss a range of properties which rank Romanian very high in the agreement continuum argued for by Franco (2000). This would allow us to argue that Romanian pronominal clitics are advanced in the process of acquiring the status of verbal inflection. Thus the clitic could be considered an agreement marker which checks the uninterpretable features of the [T+v+V] head. The clitic spells out a D feature and also the phi-features of the T head. |
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clitics verbal inflection agreement marker D feature phi-features of T |
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