First Conjunct Clitic Doubling, the Person Case Constraint, and First Conjunct Agreement: Insights from Modern Greek

Asymmetries in Conjunct Agreement

Hindi-Urdu displays an asymmetry with respect to the availability of Closest Conjunct Agreement. It is available only to objects and not to subjects. Agreement with subjects is always agreement with the full conjunct. We argue that this asymmetry in Conjunct Agreement is related to another asymmetry between subject and object agreement in Indo-Aryan languages: object agreement never involves pe...

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

Clitic-Agreement Doubling in Yurok

Abstract In Clitic-Agreement Doubling, Φ-features of the same verbal argument are simultaneously expressed by pronominal clitics and verbal agreement. The Algic language Yurok (Robins, 1958) exhibits CliticAgreement Doubling (CAD) in specific syntactic contexts requiring clitics in addition to agreement, but provides also strategies to avoid this type of redundancy by suppressing otherwise expe...

Clitic doubling or object agreement: the view from Amharic

Object agreement is the realization of phi features on v, whereas clitic doubling is often analyzed as the movement of a D head in order to attach to a verb. In principle, these two phenomena are distinct, but in practice they can be difficult to distinguish. In this paper, I take up the issue for the Amharic object marker, a morpheme that co-varies with the phi features of an internal argument...

Kerato - Conjunct 1 Yitis Sicca +

The presumptive diagnosis was made on clinical grounds in the majority of cases, the signs and symptoms being those usually described-redness and discomfort, tenacious mucous discharge, and corneal erosions and filaments. Confirmation was obtained by the measurement of the lacrimal secretion by the filter-paper test (Schirmer, 1903) and in doubtful cases by staining with rose bengal. The relati...