Syntax of non-agreeing third person clitic formd in Teopantlan, Puebla (Mexico) Spanish
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syntax, clitic forms, under-represented Spanish dialect, clitic theoryAbstract
This paper is about the syntax of the third person object marker (OM) of an under-represented Spanish dialect spoken in Teopantlan, Puebla (Mexico). Even though this object marker has the familiar Spanish form of the third person singular masculine object clitic lo, the former shows a divergent behavior with respect to the pronominal clitics in other Spanish dialects: a proclitic tendency, an almost complete lack of a-markers for od in doubling contexts, lack of evidence of an agreement between the clitic-like form and the doubled DP and also a low or null interaction between the semantics of the doubled phrase and the object marker. In this paper I show some descriptive data of the Teopantlan dialect and also, I propose an analysis based on agree and lexical specifications of the little v head, that allows us to account for the above-mentioned behavior of this form that has not yet been considered in the literature for this or similar Spanish dialects.
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