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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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Discoursive connection and the manifestation of pronominal and null subject in Brazilian Portuguese

Caderno de Squibs: Temas em estudos formais da linguagem, 2020
We investigated the phenomenon of pronominal and null subject through functional lenses. We assume the functionalist hypothesis of the ‘optimal discursive connection’ and investigate the contexts in which null and overt 1st person subjects are favored or disfavored.
Othero, Gabriel de, Ayres, Mônica Rigo, Lazzari, Melissa Giovana   +2 more
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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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Taraldsen’s generalization in diachrony : evidence from a diachronic corpus [PDF]

, 2016
International audienceWe present the first large scale quantitative investigation of the syncretisation of verbal subject agreement in Medieval French and test a classic analysis which relates non-syncretic agreement and null subjects as parts of the ...
Crabbé, Benoît, Prévost, Sophie, Simonenko, Alexandra   +2 more
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Relative Constructions in Classical/Epic Sanskrit

Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract While it is widely recognised that Sanskrit shows two major types of relative construction – one relative–correlative, the other similar to postnominal relative clauses in languages like English – it has not been established what the crucial syntactic distinctions are between these types, given the wide range of syntactic variation found in ...
John J. Lowe, Adriana Molina‐Muñoz, Antonia Ruppel   +2 more
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Exploring accessibility in direct object constructions in Santomean Portuguese

Isogloss
Null and pronominal direct objects have been extensively studied in both European Portuguese (EP) and Brazilian Portuguese (BP). We aim to characterize the properties and distribution of null/pronominal objects in STP, by comparing them with those of EP ...
Rita Gonçalves, Ana Madeira
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PERFORMING ANAPHORA IN MODERN GREEK: A NEO-GRICEAN PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS [PDF]

, 2013
The paper addresses the problem of interpreting anaphoric NPs in Modern Greek. It includes a proposal of a novel analysis based on the systematic interaction of the neo- Gricean pragmatic principles of communication, which provides a neat and elegant ...
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New Insights Into Lakota Syntax: The Encoding of Arguments and the Number of Verbal Affixes

Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the morphosyntax of transitive constructions in Lakota, with particular emphasis being placed on the encoding of arguments. The analysis of argument marking through verbal affixes in Lakota transitive constructions raises two main questions: the existence or non‐existence of the zero marker for the third person singular and
Avelino Corral Esteban
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Interface vulnerability in bilingual grammars?

Isogloss
Bilingual children typically produce more redundant pronominal subjects than monolingual children in null subject languages like Spanish in contact with non-null subject languages like English (Montrul & Sánchez-Walker, 2013; Montrul, 2004; Paradis ...
Eider Etxebarria, Silvina Montrul
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The role of prosody in overt pronoun resolution in a null subject language and in a non-null subject language: A production study

Glossa, 2019
In this study, we investigate how prosodic cues are used when an overt pronoun is associated with either a subject or an object antecedent in Italian and in Swedish.
Chiara Gargiulo, Mechtild Tronnier, Petra Bernardini   +2 more
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