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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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On null spatial Ps and their arguments
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2010 This paper investigates the phenomenon of null spatial Ps, focusing primarily on Greek where these are most widely attested. It is demonstrated that only locatives (of the type that do not denote containment), as well as directional goal Ps, are able to ...
Ahonto Terzi
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Orphan Prepositions in French: Semantic-Syntactic Properties and Didactic Relevance [PDF]
Uirtus, 2022 This article takes a broad look at the morphological, syntactic and semantic features of orphan prepositions in French, i.e. those used without a clearly expressed regime.
Clément Koama
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Covert nominals and argument ellipsis in Punjabi
Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2023 The focus of the study is to find out the potential identity of null arguments in Punjabi. However, the paper provides different patterns of interpretations of null arguments present in Punjabi by keeping in view the propositions of Takahashi (2012, July)
Bisma Butt +4 more
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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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The Holographic Nature of Null Infinity
SciPost Physics, 2021 We argue that, in a theory of quantum gravity in a four dimensional asymptotically flat spacetime, all information about massless excitations can be obtained from an infinitesimal neighbourhood of the past boundary of future null infinity and does not
Alok Laddha, Siddharth G. Prabhu, Suvrat Raju, Pushkal Shrivastava
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Persons and Pronouns: Exploring Clitics in Judeo-Spanish
Isogloss, 2022 Optional versus obligatory clitic doubling and the person-case constraint (PCC) repair constitute two puzzles researchers haven’t fully addressed.
Naomi Kurtz
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Journal of the European Second Language Association, 2017 We report that (i) European 'pro-drop' language learners of Japanese as a foreign language (L1 Spanish) ('pro-drop' JFLs) allowed a sloppy interpretation of null arguments beginning at the primary stage of L2 development, and that (ii) European non-pro ...
Kazumi Yamada, Yoichi Miyamoto
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Acquiring the distribution of null and overt direct objects in European Portuguese
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2020 This article investigates the L1 acquisition of different types of direct objects in European Portuguese (EP). Previous research has revealed that although children have early syntactic and pragmatic knowledge of objects across languages, the adequate ...
Aldona Sopata +2 more
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Developing Distinctions of Classical Principles for Modern Constitutions: Integralism: A Manual of Political Philosophy by Fr. Thomas Crean and Alan Fimister [PDF]
Studia Gilsoniana, 2021 Father Thomas Crean and Alan Fimister have produced a comprehensive yet concise treatise on classical political and legal philosophy in Integralism: A Manual of Political Philosophy.
Brian M. McCall
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