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Romance Cliticization Framework
1975 - 1995
During this period, cliticization was foregrounded as a central diagnostic of Romance grammar, with research distinguishing separate parameters for clitic position and movement and tying phonology to syntactic hosting. Investigations traced variation and diachrony from Late Latin into early Romance and into French and Spanish varieties, highlighting regional divergence and contact effects. Cognitive and sociolinguistic approaches were integrated, linking processing and acquisition with code-switching typologies and diglossia in bilingual settings, and situating phonology-morphology interfaces at the core of theory.
• Cliticization shows distinct syntactic hosting and phonological attachment for clitics, revealing independent parameters for clitic position and movement across Romance and related languages [13], [4], [11], [8].
• Variation, diachrony, and regional change in Romance surface in NWAVE-style diachronies and dialect divergence, tracing from Late Latin to early Romance and through French and Spanish varieties [3], [15], [20], [7], [19].
• Code-switching typology and diglossia illuminate language contact in Romance contexts, with practical typologies and sociolinguistic constraints across bilingual settings [2], [5], [16].
• Cognitive and psycholinguistic perspectives reveal mental representations of grammatical relations and interlanguage phonology, linking syntax theory to processing and acquisition [6], [16], [18].
• Phonology-centered theories and their consequences, including lexical phonology's impact on linguistic theory and cliticization's phonological hosting, illustrate interface across morphology and phonology [1], [16], [8].
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