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Null subjects in european and Brasilian Portuguese [PDF]

, 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 ...
Barbosa, Pilar, Duarte, Eugênia, Kato, Mary   +2 more
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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
wiley   +1 more source

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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The specifier–head relationship: negation and French subject proforms [PDF]

, 2007
This article1 and the three others in this thematic collection are about heads and specifiers, the relationship between them, and how this relationship can change over time.
Adger, Adger, Anderson, Antoine, Auger, Auger, Auger, Baltin, Barbosa, Benincà, Cann, Cardinaletti, Cardinaletti, Chomksy, Chomsky, Cinque, Cinque, Cinque, Cormack, Coveney, Cyrille-Thomas, De Cat, DeGraff, Duffield, Emonds, Goosse, Haegeman, Haegeman, Haegeman, Hansen, Hulk, Jackendoff, Jacobs, Jespersen, Jones, Koopman, Koopman, Martin, Moritz, Nadasdi, Polletto, Pollock, Queffélec, Rizzi, Rizzi, Rizzi, Roberge, Roberts, Rowlett, Rowlett, Rowlett, Schapansky, Taraldsen, Willis, Zanuttini, Zeijlstra, Zwicky   +56 more
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Native and Nonnative Speakers’ Preferences for Preposition Pied‐Piping Versus Stranding in English Wh‐Relative Clauses

Language Learning, Volume 76, Issue 1, Page 103-131, March 2026.
Abstract The current study investigated from a usage‐based perspective how phrasal frequency and collocational strength of verb–preposition collocations influence preposition placement in wh‐relative clauses. Native English speakers and Chinese learners of English as a second language of the intermediate and advanced English proficiencies completed a ...
Henan Duan (she/her), Helen Zhao (she/her), Jonathon Lum (he/him)   +2 more
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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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How Chinese learners of L2 European Portuguese interpret null and overt pronouns in forward and backward anaphora

Revista Linguística, 2018
In a questionnaire study we investigate how native speakers of European Portuguese (EP) and Chinese, as well as Chinese learners of EP as second language (L2), interpret null and overt pronouns in forward and backward anaphora.
Yi Zheng, Paula Luegi, Ana Madeira, Gabriela Matos   +3 more
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Indexing Power Through Self‐Reference: Electoral Margins and the Use of Běnxí Among Taiwanese Parliamentarians

Journal of Sociolinguistics, Volume 30, Issue 1, Page 56-69, February 2026.
ABSTRACT This study examines how Taiwanese members of parliament (MPs) deploy self‐referring expressions—specifically, the formal first‐person singular běnxí—to negotiate their institutional standing and project political power. By operationalizing access to objective power using the margin of victory (MoV) as one possible proxy, the research shows ...
Tsung‐Lun Alan Wan
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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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Predication and equation [PDF]

, 2013
English is one language where equative sentences and non-equative sentences have a similar surface syntax (but see Heggie 1988 and Moro 1997 for a discussion of more subtle differences).
Adger, David, Ramchand, Gillian
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