A Subject Clitic in Child Catalan
Keywords:
Child Language Acquisition, Catalan Language, Subject Clitics
Abstract
In this paper we examine an instance of subject cliticisation in child Catalan previously unattested in the literature (1),. Given the lack of an adult counterpart to (1) in the input the child is exposed to, the claim is made that its occurrence, far from being accidental, must result from deep properties of grammar, also detectable in other Romance varieties.- (1)
- M'he vist una pel.lícula. (Lena, 5;9)
1sCL have seen a film
'I have seen a film.'
Published
2004-01-29
Section
Articles
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