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Subject and Object Pronouns in High-Functioning Children With ASD of a Null-Subject Language [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Although the use of pronouns has been extensively investigated in children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), most studies have focused on English, and no study to date has investigated the use of subject pronouns in null subject languages.
Arhonto Terzi +4 more
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litic Climbing and Null Subject Languages [PDF]
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2002 The aim of this paper is to derive Clitic Climbing from restructuring together with the Null Subject property. Data are drawn mainly from Catalan. I propose a biclausal analysis for restructuring constructions in which clitic climbing (like any clitic ...
Jaume Solà
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A Rank Order of Accurate Use at the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface: Evidence from French and Spanish L2 Acquisition [PDF]
Linguistik Online, 2011 In an attempt to investigate the vulnerability of the syntax-pragmatics interface and to shed light on the acquisition of subjects and objects in two different languages, namely the [+null subject] language Spanish and the [-null subject] language French,
Nicola Work
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When discourse met null subjects
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2016 In this paper a novel view of the distribution of null subjects in Spanish is explored in which the discourse category which the antecedent of pro is analysed.
Angel Jimenez-Fernandez
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Cadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos, 2021 The aim of this article is twofold. In the first place, we present evidence that the syntactic change towards overt pronominal subjects observed in Brazilian Portuguese is not a stable phenomenon; rather, our empirical results allow to follow the ...
Maria Eugenia Lamoglia Duarte +1 more
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Microvariation in the resolution of pronominal subjects in Romance: European Portuguese vs. Italian
Isogloss, 2022 The present study investigates how adult native speakers of two null subject Romance languages, European Portuguese (EP) and Italian, interpret null and overt pronominal subjects in intrasentential contexts. Participants were 30 speakers of EP and 30 of
Alexandra Fiéis +2 more
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Bilingualism and (outward) over-explicitness in the choice of subject anaphoric devices
Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2021 In this work we propose an explanation (the Decreased Activation Hypothesis) for some prima facie conflicting findings concerning the choice/interpretation of subject anaphoric devices in late bilinguals (LBs).
Elisa Di Domenico
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Contexts for null subjects in contemporary Brazilian Portuguese
Revista Linguística, 2022 Null subjects have been extensively investigated in natural languages. Brazilian Portuguese (BP), in particular, raises a lot of interest in the subject, for it is apparently in a process of grammatical change, from a pro-drop language to a partial pro ...
Mônica Rigo Ayres +1 more
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Null-expletive Subject in Japanese
Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 1993 In the current Government and Binding framework, every sentence must have a subject. When the matrix subject position is non-thematic, it is filled by an expletive. Japanese, however, lacks an overt expletive.
Terada, Michiko
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Null Subject Occurrence in Monolingual Spanish SLI: A Discriminant Function Analysis
Languages, 2018 Background: Child Spanish-speakers appear to use more null subjects than do adults. Null subject use, like the use of tense marking, is sensitive to discourse-pragmatics.
John Grinstead +6 more
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