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South Dravidian Languages: Consistent Null Subject or Discourse Pro-Drop?
International Journal of Linguistics, 2023 Indian languages are not mentioned in any of the canonical literature on null subject languages as they do not fall in a specific subcategory neatly. They show a relatively consistent conjugation system, but have more features of Radical pro-drop languages than Consistent Null-Subject languages.
Arya Navya A V
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Null arguments and the inverse problem
Glossa, 2021 Native speakers can reconstruct null arguments from a linear string of words where they are notoriously absent. How they solve this problem remains an unsolved and largely unaddressed issue.
Pauli Brattico
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Indefinite readings of referential null subjects and null objects in Spanish
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2023 It has been claimed in the literature that referential null subjects receive definite readings in consistent null-subject languages, like Spanish. That is why they are said to display the typical behavior of definite pronouns (pro). However, referential
Carlos Martínez García
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Cadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos, 2021 The aim of this article is twofold. In the first place, we present evidence that the syntactic change towards overt pronominal subjects observed in Brazilian Portuguese is not a stable phenomenon; rather, our empirical results allow to follow the ...
Maria Eugenia Lamoglia Duarte +1 more
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The Setting of the Null Subject Parameters across (Non-)Null-Subject Languages
LanguagesThis article explores a learning model for acquiring a variety of null and non-null-subject languages (i.e., consistent, partial, semi and non-null-subject languages).
Karina Bertolino
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Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 2019 Based on original data collected through an online experiment, evidence is provided in this paper that the interpretation of null subjects in a radical pro-drop language like Chinese relies on the topic criterion proposed for consistent and partial pro ...
Frascarelli Mara, Casentini Marco
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LinguisticsInterpretive differences between overt subject pronouns relative to null subject pronouns are commonly considered a defining property of Consistent Null Subject Languages (CNSLs), in contradistinction to Partial Null Subject Languages (PNSLs).
Ruda Marta, Huang Nick
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On the Early Acquisition of (Null) Subjects in Catalan as a Heritage Language
Romanica CracoviensiaLanguages vary as to whether subjects must be overtly expressed. Much research has focused on how this phenomenon is acquired by monolingual and simultaneous bilingual children.
Laia Arnaus Gil, Amelia Jiménez-Gaspar
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Speaker subject expression with verbs of cognition – think/believe in Italian and Spanish
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic LinguisticsIn this paper, we study 1st person subject pronoun realization with verbs of cognition in spoken Spanish and Italian corpus data. Previous studies have shown particularly frequent overt subjects with 1st person singular (yo) creo ‘(I) think/believe’ in ...
Peter Herbeck +2 more
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The Pro-drop Parameter in Mazandarani [PDF]
̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2021 or unexpressed pronoun in Pro-drop languages refers to a linguistic element having a syntactic function with no phonetic representation. These kinds of languages are divided in different varieties. This article, in the first level, tries to mention the
Ali Asghar Rajabzade +2 more
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