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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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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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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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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 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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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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