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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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“There Are Places Full of Beauty”: Desettling High School Students' Scientific Writing

Science Education, Volume 110, Issue 4, Page 1018-1042, July 2026.
ABSTRACT This study contributes to desettling and expanding expectations about the forms of scientific language that belong in students' scientific writing. The primary empirical focus is the analysis of 52 high school student abstracts articulating community‐based investigations, submitted as part of their participation in a student conference in a ...
Alejandra Frausto Aceves
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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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Pronoun Resolution in Turkish: The Interplay of Referential Form, Word Order, and Implicit Causality

Cognitive Science, Volume 50, Issue 6, June 2026.
Abstract Pronouns are a ubiquitous part of discourse, but unusual in that their meaning is almost entirely determined by context. While early theorists hoped to explain pronouns based on a small number of simple principles, the last half‐century of research has revealed a cornucopia of influences at the syntactic, semantic, discourse, and pragmatic ...
Duygu Sarısoy, Ebru Evcen, Joshua Hartshorne   +2 more
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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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Little pro’s, but how many of them? – On 3SG null pronominals in Hungarian

LingBaW, 2017
While Hungarian 3SG individual reference null pronominals are in free variation with their lexical counterparts, 3SG generic reference null pronominals do not show such variation.
Gréte Dalmi
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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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The Development of Basque Subject Pronoun Expression in Bilingual School-Age Children

Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics
Acquiring full mastery of the pragmatic constraints regulating null/overt pronominal subjects in null subject languages like Basque is a prolonged and cognitively taxing process because pronominal distribution is pragmatically conditioned in discourse ...
Eider Etxebarria, Silvina Montrul
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Lability in Hittite and Indo‐European: A Diachronic Perspective

Studia Linguistica, Volume 80, Issue 1, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Lability is defined as the possibility of a verb to enter a valency alternation without undergoing any change in its form. Labile verbs were common in ancient Indo‐European languages, including Hittite, which mostly features anticausative lability, with reflexive and reciprocal lability being less prominent.
Guglielmo Inglese
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Early subjects in child Romanian: A case study [PDF]

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2018
This paper documents the use of early subjects in one longitudinal corpus of monolingual Romanian. The focus is on the null/overt and preverbal/postverbal subject alternation, as well as on pragmatic adequacy.
Otilia Teodorescu
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