Optimal Romanian clitics:A cross-linguistic perspective*
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Comparative Issues in Romanian Syntax held at the University of New Brunswick, Saint John, Canada; at the 1996 Going Romance conference held in Utrecht, the Netherlands; at the 1997 Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages held at UC Irvine, and at the 1997 Hopkins Optimality Theory Workshop & University of Maryland Mayfest in Baltimore. I would like to thank audiences at these meetings for their comments, criticisms, and suggestions. I am very grateful to my consultants who patiently dealt with all my data questions: Lidia Mangu, Ciprian Chelba, Donka Farkas, and Virginia Motapanyane for Romanian; Boris Nikolov and Marina Todorova for Bulgarian and and Olga Tomiƒ for Macedonian. Thanks also to Luigi Burzio and Paul Smolensky for their comments and suggestions. Optimal Romanian clitics:A cross-linguistic perspective*
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