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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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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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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

Discours
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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L’emplec dels pronoms subjèctes e la lenga d’Augièr Galhard

Lengas, 2007
In the form of Occitan used by Augièr Galhard (1533 ?-1595 ?) subject pronouns occur with a high degree of frequency. Medieval Occitan however can accurately be classified as null subject language and the same is true for more recent forms of the ...
Patric Sauzet
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Null Subjects in European and Brazilian Portuguese

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2005
The goals of this paper are twofold: a) to provide a structural account of the effects of the informal ‘Avoid Pronoun Principle’, proposed in Chomsky (1981: 65) for the Null Subject Languages (NSLs), and b) to compare, in European and Brazilian ...
Maria do Pilar Pereira Barbosa, Maria Eugênia Lammoglia Duarte, Mary Aizawa Kato   +2 more
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Language Dominance Shapes Protracted Development of Nonpersonal Clitics (Even) in Cases of Widespread Bilingualism

Language Learning, EarlyView.
Abstract Little research has explored how language dominance may affect the development and ultimate attainment of morphosyntax in a situation of widespread and social bilingualism, where exposure to both languages starts early on and can be sustained over time.
Adriana Soto‐Corominas, Sílvia Perpiñán, Scott James Perry   +2 more
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