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Article published In: Italo-Romance Morphosyntax: Theoretical and empirical issues
Edited by Francesco Maria Ciconte and Michela Cennamo
[Linguistic Variation 26:1] 2026
► pp. 97–112

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Some additional notes on Object Clitic Reduplication and non-reflexive se in Perugino

ORCiD logo with link | Università per Stranieri di Perugia
Published online: 17 July 2025
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lv.24067.did
Abstract
In this work I sharpen the description of Object Clitic Reduplication in Perugino, providing additional, relevant data with respect to the ones described in Di Domenico, Elisa. 2022. Object Clitic Reduplication in Perugino. Languages 71: 262. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar. In specific, in this work I will deal with the distinction between non-reflexive se and all other clitics (including reflexive se) observed in previous work, providing evidence that concerns their distribution beyond restructuring sentences, where the phenomena at stake were originally observed.
First of all, the analysis will show that the impossibility of having clitic reduplication with non-reflexive se cannot be due to an impossibility of having non-reflexive se in enclisis to the infinitive, since it may occur in enclisis in infinitives introduced by the preposition da.
Furthermore, as the data show, the clitic string proclitic to the infinitive (activated by negation) and the one proclitic to the finite verb cannot be equated, as they behave differently with respect to the distribution of non-reflexive se. Finally, as I will show, when the pre-infinitival position is available, i.e. in negative infinitives, clitics, with the exception of non-reflexive se, can reduplicate: Clitic reduplication is thus possible in Perugino also beyond restructuring sentences.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Enclitic non-reflexive se
  • 3.Cliticization in negative infinitives
    • 3.1Non-reflexive se and other clitics in negative infinitives
    • 3.2OCR in negative infinitives
  • 4.Discussion
  • 5.Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
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