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Are there null arguments in Athabascan?

Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 2012
The existence of null arguments in Athabascan languages, and other polysynthetic languages, is a debated topic. We argue that, if the agreement on the verb is the argument, the so-called Pronominal Argument Hypothesis, languages such as Navajo do not have null arguments in the traditional sense.
Elly Van Gelderen
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Agreement with overt and null arguments in Ingush

Linguistics, 2018
Abstract Ingush (Nakh-Daghestanian, Caucasus) offers a variety of contexts with contrast, variation, or speaker choice between agreement and non-agreement and between overt and null arguments, which provide speakers many opportunities to manipulate agreement and argument marking.
Johanna Nichols
exaly   +2 more sources

On Null Subjects and Null Arguments

Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique, 1993
In the literature on Null Subject Languages (NSLs) since Rizzi (1982), the three properties that are commonly thought to be connected are (i) the richness of inflectional morphology, (ii) free subject inversion, and (iii) the COMP-trace effect. The connection between them is that if a language (e.g., Italian) has the option of having a null subject (NS)
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Null Arguments in German Child Language

Language Acquisition, 1996
Acquisition research has shown that, in German, the use of null subjects does not drop from about 50% to 5% in a very short space of time, but there is a drop from about 45% to between 10% and 20%. In the present article, I investigate this 10% to 20% Null Subject stage in 3-year-olds and show that this stage, though surprisingly long, is not final ...
Cornelia Hamann
exaly   +2 more sources

The Syntactic Recoverability of Null Arguments

1990
In most natural languages, a sentence may include a variety of missing elements the recoverability of which is made possible by different processes. This thesis investigates the type of syntactic recoverability found in null argument languages. It is supposed that the mechanisms responsible for this type of recoverability are deeply embedded in ...
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An Experimental Study of Null Arguments

Rüya Li
exaly   +2 more sources

Null arguments in monolingual children

2006
Research on the development of pronouns in French and Italian has shown that object clitics are acquired with more effort than other syntactic categories: they are realized later in development than subject clitics and strong subject and object pronouns. Both the delay of object clitics and the subject-object asymmetry are robust.
Natascha Müller, Katrin Schmitz, Katja Francesca Cantone, Tanja Kupisch   +3 more
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Null arguments: the case of Japanese and Romance

Lingua, 2003
The first half of this article presents an overview of theoretical and empirical issues raised by the phenomena of argument drop within the principles-and-parameters approach, with special attention to the comparison of the argument drop in Japanese and the Romance languages. The latter half of the article is devoted to reconsidering the two parameters
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Null arguments in early Germanic

2014
Abstract This chapter discusses the occurrence of null arguments in early Germanic. In 5.2 it presents data on the occurrence of null arguments from five key early Germanic languages, including new quantitative studies of Gothic, Old Norse, Old English, and Old Saxon.
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Syntactic representation of null arguments

2018
Focusing on definite-argument drop, this chapter puts forward the hypothesis that null arguments are minimally represented as [nPn] and maximally as a fully-fledged pronoun ([DP D [PersP Pers [NumP Num [nPn]]]] or [PersP Pers [NumP Num [nPn]]]). The (un)availability of such arguments in a language is a consequence of independent features of its grammar:
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