The first book to cover the grammar of clitics from all points of view, including their
phonology, morphology, and syntax, and the first comprehensive survey of clitic phenomena …

Null Su'ojects Page 1 Null Su'ojects by Maria do Pilar Pereira Barbosa Licenciatura Modern
Languages and Literatures Faculdade de Letras, University of Oporto, Portugal, 1980 MA in …

The goals of this paper are twofold: a) to provide a structural account of the effects of the
informal 'Avoid Pronoun Principle', proposed in Chomsky (1981: 65) for the Null Subject …

The typical assumption in a pro-drop language like Spanish is that covert as well as overt
subjects occupy a preverbal position at Spell Out in which their case and agreement …

This dissertation explores various aspects of word order and clausal structure in the
Romance languages, with special emphasis on Spanish. The different aspects are looked at …

This paper discusses evidence that reinforces previous proposals (Barbosa 1995, 2000,
Alexiadou & Anagnostopoulou 1998, Pollock 1997, Kato 1999) that there is no EPP feature …

This book presents a lexically-based analysis of verbal pronominal clitics in Romance. It is
argued that Romance clitics constitute a distinct morphological unit with special clitic-type …

The present article explores so-called interpolation structures in the dialects of southern Italy
where, in contrast to most standard Romance varieties, the otherwise inseparable nexus …

Historical accounts of the phenomenon of cliticization have previously documented only the
loss of second-position clitics. This paper argues that the history of Bulgarian offers evidence …

The present paper aims to contribute to our understanding of heritage language acquisition
by focusing on the results of three studies on heritage speakers of European Portuguese …