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Null subjects, expletives, and the status of Medieval French

Oxford Scholarship Online, 2018
In view of considerable differences from prototypical null-subject (NS) languages and recent proposals of different types of NS language, this chapter reconsiders the status of Medieval French, generally analysed as a NS language, regarding the NS ...
M. Zimmermann
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D-features or ellipsis in null subject licensing? Evidence from Brazilian and European Portuguese

Probus: International Journal of Latin and Romance Linguistics
Holmberg (Holmberg, Anders. 2005. Is there a little pro? Evidence from Finnish. Linguistic Inquiry 36(4). 533–564) and its revised version in Holmberg et al. (Holmberg, Anders, Aarti Nayudu & Michelle Sheehan. 2009.
Ana Maria Martins, Jairo Nunes
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Clause size as a metric for null-subject licensing with defective tense in Slavic

Journal of Linguistics
This study investigates the variation in null subject usage across Slavic languages, focusing on Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian. By examining the syntactic and interpretive conditions for null subjects in embedded subjunctive clauses, the paper ...
Alberto Frasson, Antonina Mocniak, Dorota Klimek-Jankowska   +2 more
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pro as a Minimal nP: Toward a Unified Approach to Pro-Drop

Linguistic Inquiry, 2019
In this article, I examine the properties of the partial null subject languages (NSLs) when compared with the consistent and the discourse pro-drop languages and argue that the same basic mechanism underlies pro-drop in partial as well as discourse pro ...
Pilar P. Barbosa
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Does structural priming lead to contact-induced language change?

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism
Subject pronoun expression (SPE) has been extensively investigated in studies of language contact, with studies finding higher rates of SPE in consistent null subject languages that are in contact with non-null subject languages.
Irati Hurtado, Silvina Montrul
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1 Pro subject(ed) to challenge: The concept of the null subject and typologies of Null Subject Languages

Null Subjects in Slavic and Finno-Ugric, 2022
J. Witkoś
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Microvariation in the division of labor between null- and overt-subject pronouns: the case of Italian and Spanish

Applied Psycholinguistics, 2021
Carla Contemori
exaly  

The emergence of creole subject–verb agreement and the licensing of null subjects

Language Variation and Change, 2000
M. Meyerhoff
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Chapter 9. Brazilian and European Portuguese and Holmberg’s 2005 typology of null subject languages

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 2021
A. Martins, Jairo Nunes
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A sociolinguistic view of null subjects and VOT in Toronto heritage languages

, 2015
N. Nagy
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