Romance and Croatian in Contact: Non-Clitic Auxiliaries in Istro-Romanian

This paper focuses on Istro-Romanian and argues that the TAM auxiliaries of this variety are not morphophonological clitics. This analysis is supported by the existence of several empirical phenomena (auxiliary-licensed VP-ellipsis, scrambling, and interpolation), some not found in modern Romance, o...

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Main Authors: Adina Dragomirescu, Alexandru Nicolae
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-11-01
Series:Languages
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/6/4/187