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Glottolog 4.4 Resources for Old Spanish
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: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 2021
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The Use of the Future Subjunctive in Colonial Spanish Texts: Evidence of Vitality or Demise?
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In: Languages ; Volume 6 ; Issue 4 (2021)
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Accusative clitics, null objects, and the object agreement cycle
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In: Journal of Historical Syntax; Vol 5 No 16-25 (2021): Proceedings of the 21st Diachronic Generative Syntax (DiGS) Conference; 1-56 ; 2163-6001 (2021)
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Abstract:
Conservative varieties of Modern Spanish exhibit clitic left-dislocation and accusative clitic doubling of pronominal objects. Clitic left-dislocation occurs in Old Spanish but accusative clitic doubling first appears in the fifteenth century, becoming regular in the sixteenth century. Conservative Modern Spanish allows some non-referential null objects but generally lacks null referential objects. However, null referential objects do occur in Rioplatense Spanish (Schwenter 2006). In this paper, I show how these patterns are related. My main claim is that clitic left-dislocation, accusative clitic doubling, and null referential objects become available diachronically as a result of the grammaticalization of object clitics; i.e., van Gelderen’s (2011) Object Agreement Cycle. The stage of the cycle a language is in correlates with whether the language has clitic left-dislocation, accusative clitic doubling, and/or null referential objects. I extend Holmberg, Nayudu & Sheehan’s (2009) D-in-T analysis of null subjects to null objects. I propose that the D-feature that licenses null objects on v is there due to the cycle; i.e., reanalysis of object clitics. My analysis accounts for the distribution of clitic left-dislocation, accusative clitic doubling, and null referential objects in Romance and it leads to the prediction that a language with clitic-less null referential objects will have developed less restricted accusative clitic doubling first.
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clitic doubling; clitic left dislocation; diachronic syntax; grammaticalization; null objects; object clitics; old spanish
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URL: https://doi.org/10.18148/hs/2021.v5i16-25.75 https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/hs/index.php/hs/article/view/75
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The Colonial Texts Corpus for the Digital Library of Old Spanish Texts
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