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Clitics are not enough: on agreement and null subjects in Brazilian Venetan

Glossa, 2021
This paper presents some facts about the syntax of subject pronouns in contact. We investigate agreement and EPP-checking in Brazilian Venetan, a heritage northern Italo-Romance variety spoken in southern Brazil in contact with Brazilian Portuguese ...
Alberto Frasson
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Children’s subjects in Clitic Left Dislocations in Italian

Glossa, 2021
The study examined the production of subjects by Italian-speaking children in different pragmatic contexts which elicited the use of Clitic Left Dislocations (ClLD), pronoun structures and passives. The analysis takes into account the data from Belletti &
Adriana Belletti, Claudia Manetti
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A representação do sujeito pronominal no grupo românico: espanhol e italiano em contraste com o português

Caligrama: Revista de Estudos Românicos, 2012
Resumo: Este trabalho visa a mostrar o comportamento do sujeito pronominal em variedades do espanhol e no italiano, línguas prototipicamente de sujeito nulo, no intuito de evidenciar o distanciamento do comportamento do português brasileiro no que se ...
Juliana Esposito Marins, Humberto Soares da Silva   +1 more
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Brazilian Portuguese

Cadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos, 2021
The aim of this article is twofold. In the first place, we present evidence that the syntactic change towards overt pronominal subjects observed in Brazilian Portuguese is not a stable phenomenon; rather, our empirical results allow to follow the ...
Maria Eugenia Lamoglia Duarte, Juliana Esposito Marins   +1 more
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Null subjects in contemporary Brazilian filmic speech

Gragoatá, 2020
The present research, based on a corpus of contemporary Brazilian filmic speech – Urban Carioca Sub-Corpus from the I-Fala Corpus of Luso-Brazilian Film Dialogues as a resource for L1 & L2 Learning and Linguistic Research (DE ROSA et al., 2017 ...
Gian Luigi De Rosa
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On Subject Pronouns in Finnish-Italian Bilinguals: Effects of Cross-linguistic Influence on Discourse-pragmatics Competence

Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2019
The distribution of overt pronouns has been the focus of much interest in the last decades as it is considered a typical phenomenon of the syntax-discourse/pragmatics interface, a locus of variability in different kinds of language acquisition (bilingual,
Lena Dal Pozzo
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Pronominal vs. anaphoric pro in Kannada

Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2017
Kannada licenses a pronominal pro and an anaphor pro in root and subordinate clauses. In the subordinate clauses, pro’s person feature largely determines its pronominal/anaphoric status.
Sudharsan, Anuradha
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Interpretive asymmetries between null and overt PRO in complement and adjunct infinitives in (Colombian) Spanish

Isogloss, 2022
Cross-linguistically, control complement clauses have been reported to allow overt pronominal subjects displaying the diagnostic properties of obligatory control (‘Overt PRO’; see Livitz (2011) and reference therein). Building on Gómez (2017), we extend
Kryzzya Gómez, Maia Duguine, Hamida Demirdache   +2 more
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Greater than zero?

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2022
This article focuses on the variation of subject expression in modal constructions of necessity with pitää ‘must, have to’ in Finnish everyday conversations.
Mikael Varjo
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Agreement and Null Subjects

Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2004
This paper argues that agreement is a theta-role bearer, either directly, when agreement is externally merged in a theta position, or indirectly, when it is internally merged, heading an argument chain.
Christer Platzack
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