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Teasing apart retrieval and encoding interference in the processing of anaphors [PDF]

, 2015
Two classes of account have been proposed to explain the memory processes subserving the processing of reflexive-antecedent dependencies. Structure-based accounts assume that the retrieval of the antecedent is guided by syntactic tree-configurational ...
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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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Establishing a Variable Context for Lexical Subjects in Spanish

Forma y Función, 2021
The dominant trend in variationist studies of Spanish subject expression is to focus on pronominal subjects, excluding lexical subjects (LSs). Due to such lack of attention to LSs in previous research, the current paper aims to fill this gap and to gain ...
Philip P. Limerick
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Pronominal subject interpretation in temporal adjuncts in child Romanian [PDF]

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2018
The present paper reports the results of an experimental study on the resolution of intra-sentential anaphora in child Romanian. In a picture-selection task, 3-, 5- and 8-year old monolingual Romanian children had to identify the matrix antecedent of 3rd
Otilia Teodorescu
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An Exploratory Study of the Effect of Spanish Immersion Education on the Acquisition of Pronominal Subjects in Child Heritage Speakers

Languages, 2020
Studies have found that aspects of grammar that lie at the syntax–pragmatics interface, such as the use of pronominal subjects in null-subject languages, are likely to undergo cross-linguistic influence in bilingual speakers.
Michele Goldin
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A Variationist Study of Subject Pronoun Expression in Medellín, Colombia

Languages, 2020
This variationist study of subject pronoun expression (SPE) in Medellín, Colombia uses multivariate regressions to probe the effects of ten predictors on 4623 tokens from the Proyecto para el Estudio Sociolingüístico del Español de España y de América ...
Rafael Orozco, Luz Marcela Hurtado
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Middle-Passive Constructions, Dative Possessors, and Word Order in Spanish

Languages, 2023
This paper examines data from Spanish middle-passive sentences whose grammatical subject contains a body-part noun, externally possessed by means of a dative possessor.
Imanol Suárez-Palma
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Subject Alternation and Antecedent Preference in Romanian

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In this paper, we will study the use of null pronouns on the one hand and the interpretation of null and pronominal subjects on the other hand in Romanian. While both questions have been studied across a wide range of Romance languages, empirical data on
Fabian Istrate, Anne Abeillé, Barbara Hemforth   +2 more
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Pronominal anaphora resolution in temporal adjuncts in child Romanian [PDF]

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2016
In this paper I investigate the anaphoric interpretation of null and overt pronominal subjects in temporal adjuncts in child Romanian. The results show that 5-year old Romanian children make no distinction between null and overt pronominal subjects ...
Otilia Teodorescu
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