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First Language Transfer and Second Language Proficiency: A Study of Null Subjects and Null Objects in Chinese learners’ L2 English [PDF]
, 2016 Language transfer has been one of the most discussed topics in SLA for quite some time. It is known that Chinese is divergent from English in many ways. One of the cross-linguistic variation is that Chinese allows null subjects and null objects in formal
Nie, Chunyuan
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Prehension and Perception of Size in Left Visual Neglect
Behavioural Neurology, 2002 Right hemisphere damaged patients with and without left visual neglect, and age-matched controls had objects of various sizes presented within left or right body hemispace. Subjects were asked to estimate the objects’ sizes or to reach out and grasp them,
R. D. McIntosh +4 more
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Identifiability and Null Objects in Chamorro
Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, 1984 Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1984), pp.
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'Tough'-constructions and their derivation [PDF]
, 2009 This article addresses the syntax of the notorious 'tough' (-movement) construction (TC) in English. TCs exhibit a range of apparently contradictory empirical properties suggesting that their derivation involves the application of both A-movement and A ...
Hicks, Glyn
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The relevance of referring expressions: the case of diary drop in English
, 2010 This thesis offers a pragmatic analysis of subjectless sentences in non-null subject languages, focusing on English ‘diary drop’ (as in ‘Saw a good film yesterday’).
Katherine J. Scott, Scott, K.J.
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Null objects in Basque Spanish and the issue of language dominance [PDF]
, 2011 textReferential null objects are attested in several varieties of Spanish that are in contact with other languages. Some of them coexist with languages with rich agreement system, e.g., Spanish in contact with Quechua and Basque (cf., e.g., Landa 1995 ...
Zinkunegi Uzkudun, Iera
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Quantifier-variable relations in Romanian prepositional phrases
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2007 This paper explores the syntactic and semantic properties of objects of prepositions in Romanian. What is peculiar about these objects is the fact that they cannot be headed by overt definite determiners, unless they are modified.
Daniela Isac
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Self-gravitating field configurations: The role of the energy–momentum trace
Physics Letters B, 2014 Static spherically-symmetric matter distributions whose energy–momentum tensor is characterized by a non-negative trace are studied analytically within the framework of general relativity.
Shahar Hod
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Converging and diverging grammars
Anuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca "Julio de Urquijo", 1999 This paper reports on a cross-generational study of the evolution of Basque Spanish as regards lexical subjects in infinitival constructions, preverbal double negatives, nominal disagreement, clitic doubling, word order, and null objects.
Alazne Landa, Jon Franco
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Null Arguments in English Registers: A Minimalist Account
, 1998 The syntax of null arguments in the diary and instructional registers of English is investigated in a Minimalist framework. The first unified analysis of null arguments in the two registers is given.
Horsey, Richard
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