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| Source | written material |
|---|---|
| Author/Creator/Speaker(s) | Pollet Samvelian, Jesse tsenge |
| Editor/Recorded by/Broadcaster | Atena Mahmoodan |
| Title | Persian object clitics and the syntax-morphology interface |
| Original language | Persian |
| Date/Place | 3.29.2012 NTNU |
| Volume/Pages | 6 |
| Type | article |
In this paper we focus on the use of pronominal clitics to realize the object of a verb, as in (2c), where
the enclitic -aš attaches to the verb did after the inflectional suffix -am encoding the syntactically optional
subject. In formal language, clitic objects and independent syntactic objects are in complementary
distribution, but clitic doubling is frequent in colloquial registers