Clitics. are often analyzed as D ele- ments that are head-adjoined to a functional head such as T0 (Uriagereka 1995; see also the references in Yuan 2018: 53). Crucially, subject-indexing morphemes in Semitic look nothing like determiners. First, there are, to my knowledge, no Semitic languages in which definite articles inflect for person or number.9 Determiners are largely invariant when compared to subject-indexing morphology on the verb.
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