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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, Theodoros Marinis, Theodoros Marinis, Anthi Zafeiri, Konstantinos Francis   +4 more
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litic Climbing and Null Subject Languages

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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The Setting of the Null Subject Parameters across (Non-)Null-Subject Languages

Languages
This article explores a learning model for acquiring a variety of null and non-null-subject languages (i.e., consistent, partial, semi and non-null-subject languages).
Karina Bertolino
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Brazilian Portuguese

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, Juliana Esposito Marins   +1 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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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, Ana Madeira, Joana Teixeira   +2 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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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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Revisiting the Null Subject Parameter: New Insights from Afro-Peruvian Spanish

Isogloss, 2017
With the advent of the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995), the prevailing view of linguistic variation and contrast within universal Grammar has undergone a shift from rigidly defined parameters ˗associated with clusters of properties (Chomsky 1981 ...
Sandro Sessarego, Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach   +1 more
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Some considerations on the syntax of expletive subjects in Old Venetan and the emergence of subject clitics

Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2021
Old Venetan varieties display different forms of third person subject pronouns. In particular, the reduced monosyllabic and asyllabic forms are strongly related to the expletive subject function.
Jacopo Garzonio
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