The semantics of Spanish Clitic Left Dislocations with epithets.
Rioplatense Spanish Clitic Left Dislocations with epithets contain a left-dislocated direct object DP, an in situ direct object epithet DP, and a direct object clitic, all three apparently referring to the same event participant. Previous proposals have focused on syntactic licensing mechanisms but...
| Publicado en: | Probus: International Journal of Latin & Romance Linguistics Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 287 - 322 |
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De Gruyter
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