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The evolutionary dynamics of how languages signal who does what to whom. [PDF]

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Shcherbakova O, Blasi DE, Gast V, Skirgård H, Gray RD, Greenhill SJ.   +5 more
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A unified semantics for distributive and non-distributive universal quantifiers across languages. [PDF]

Nat Lang Linguist Theory
Haslinger N, Hien AN, Rosina EE, Schmitt V, Wurm V.   +4 more
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Strong and weak pronominals in the null subject parameter

Probus, 1999
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Topic-drop versus pro-drop: null subjects and pronominal subjects in the Spanish L2 of Chinese, English, French, German and Japanese speakers

Second Language Research, 1999
Recent developments within the so-called Principles and Parameters model of acquisition argue for a clear-cut separation of Universal Grammar (UG) principles from parametric options and locate all parameters within functional categories (Borer, 1984; Lebeaux, 1988; Chomsky, 1991).
Juana M. Liceras, Lourdes Díaz
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Emergence and early production of the 1st person singular in Croatian: the case of overt pronominal and null subjects

2023
The acquisition of reference is one of the central topics in the study of language development. Referential expressions convey different morphosyntactic, semantic, and pragmatic information, so children need to learn which expressions to use for referring in specific communicative situations.
Pavlinušić Vilus, Eva, Košutar, Sara, Hržica, Gordana   +2 more
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Pro ‐drop and Theories of pro in the Minimalist Program Part 1: Consistent Null Subject Languages and the Pronominal‐Agr Hypothesis

Language and Linguistics Compass, 2011
Abstract Some languages allow for phonetically null arguments in certain environments. Others do not. This phenomenon, known as pro ‐drop , arose particular interest in the 80s with the theory of
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Diachronic change and the nature of pronominal null subjects

2018
This chapter focuses on the nature of null referential subjects (pro) through a case study in Russian. The loss of pro-drop in Middle Russian implied that: (i) null subjects (NSs) in non-embedded contexts became restricted to instances licensed by pragmatics.
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Next mention biases predict the choice of null and pronominal subjects

In this paper we investigate the production of null and pronominal subjects in Romanian. Data from corpus and experimental studies show that several factors need to be taken into account for this alternation beyond the syntactic role of the antecedents.
Istrate, Fabian, Ionescu, Ruxandra, Hemforth, Barbara   +2 more
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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  

On Partial Null Subject languages: Why pro-drop in Brazilian Portuguese and Russian became similar but not identical/ Sobre as línguas de Sujeito Parcialmente Nulo: Por que o pro-drop em português brasileiro e em russo se tornaram semelhantes, mas não idênticos

Revista De Estudos Da Linguagem, 2022
Nerea Madariaga
exaly