Table 3.
Response coding for the clitic task in the Present Perfect.
| Category | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| Elicitation formula: Cosa ha fatto il nonno alla bambina? ('What did the grandfather do to the girl?) | ||
| Target | Sentence with the correctly inflected clitic and the correct agreement with the past participle |
La ha seguita / L'ha seguita ‘pro CL3SG.FEM has followed’ |
| Gender/number error | Sentence with a clitic wrongly inflected for gender, number or both |
Lo ha seguito ‘pro CL3SG.M has followed’ |
| Omission | Ungrammatical sentence with omission of the clitic | *Ha seguito ‘*pro has followed’ |
| Full DP | Infelicitous sentence with a full DP in place of the clitic |
Ha seguito la bambina ‘pro has followed the girl’ |
| Indirect clitic | Sentence containing a dative clitic instead of the accusative one |
Le è andato dietro ‘pro IndCL3SG.FEM has gone after’ |
| Other | Irrelevant sentence |
Era preoccupato ‘pro was worried’ |
| Non-target PP | Sentence with contracted clitic and non-target past participlea | L'ha seguito ‘pro c/CL has followedPL.FEM’ |
| Agreement error | Sentence with the correct clitic and a wrongly inflected past participle | *La ha seguito ‘pro CL3SG.FEM has followedSG.M’ |
| Wrong contraction | Sentence containing a contraction of the plural clitic | *L'ha seguite ‘pro c/CL has followedPL.FEM’ |
a
We included this category since in this case it is not possible to determine whether the clitic was wrong and agreed with the PP, or whether the clitic was correct and the PP was wrongly inflected.