Clitic-Doubling and (Non-)Configurationality

Άρτεμις Αλεξιάδου, Elena Anagnostopoulou · Publication Server of Goethe University Frankfurt am Main (Goethe University Frankfurt) · 2000

Baker (1996:88) suggests that polysynthetic languages (Mohawk) and languages with optional clitics/agreement morphemes (Romance, Bantu) differ in that (1), which derives from the Morphological Visibility Condition,1 holds in the former but not in the latter group:

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