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Offline interpretation of subject pronouns by native speakers of Spanish

Glossa, 2018
Research on anaphora resolution reveals that speakers’ interpretation of pronominal subjects is often inconsistent, with results differing in terms of the antecedent preferences of these speakers and the factors that affect these preferences. The present
Gloria Chamorro
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Languages Without Tense

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 4, July/August 2025.
ABSTRACT Within formal semantics, languages with no exponent of tense, or with optional tense, have begun to be incorporated into the theory of temporality only in the last couple decades. This article traces the development of their study, identifying empirical arguments that arbitrate between competing analyses of tenselessness.
Maziar Toosarvandani
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A verum focus expletive: The case of Sovramontino lu [PDF]

Italian Journal of Linguistics
This paper investigates the discourse-pragmatic expletive lu in Sovramontino, a conservative Gallo-Italic variety spoken in the northeastern part of Italy.
Simone De Cia
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Disunity of personal taste

Mind &Language, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 252-272, June 2025.
The article argues that, linguistically speaking, there is no uniform class of personal taste predicate. There is an F(un)‐type PPT that takes infinitive complements expressing events. In effect, these PPTs are predicates of events involving participants. There is also a T(asty)‐type that cannot take an infinitive complement and does not enter into the
John Collins
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Expanding the Typology of Absolutive Syntax in Mayan: Evidence From Northern Mam

Language and Linguistics Compass, Volume 19, Issue 3, May/June 2025.
ABSTRACT Past work on Mayan languages has divided the family into two groups based on syntactic ergativity: ‘high‐absolutive’ languages in which objects raise to a position above the ergative subject and enter into Agree with a high probe and ‘low‐absolutive’ languages in which objects remain low and enter into Agree with a low probe.
Willie Myers
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EPP revisited: evidence from null subject languages* [PDF]

, 2007
The present paper examines the correlation between the pro-drop parameter and rich verbal morphology. With evidence from Greek, Old French (OF) and Brazilian Portuguese (BP), it is shown that null subjects are not licensed only in languages that have ...
Sitaridou, Ioanna, Sifaki, Evi
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Anaphora resolution in 2L1 Romanian. Evidence from Romanian-Hungarian bilinguals [PDF]

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2018
The paper reports the results of an experimental study on intra-sentential anaphora resolution in 2L1 Romanian, by Romanian-Hungarian bilingual children.
Veronica Tomescu
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Null subject and null object in child Chinese.

, 2000
This study is focused on the null subject and object phenomenon in Chinese child language. Its goal is to investigate null subject and object use in the Chinese spontaneous speech in the light of the debates in the previous literature.
Wu, Bin.
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The subject, it is here! The varying structural positions of preverbal subjects O Sujeito, ele está aqui! A posição variável dos sujeitos preverbais

DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2007
This paper analyzes preverbal overt subjects, comparing Brazilian Portuguese to (other) null-subject languages, especially within Romance. It explores syntactic and semantic properties, including resumption, ellipsis, quantifiers and scope, variable ...
Acrisio Pires
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The Copy Theory of Control and the Analysis of Finite Control

Languages
Under the Markovian property of derivations the history of the derivation is not preserved in the current state, hence chains cannot be read off it.
Maria Rita Manzini, Anna Roussou
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