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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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The role of grammatical role and thematic role predictability in reference form production in Mandarin Chinese

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
Evidence suggests that English speakers use pronouns when referring to the grammatical subject and predictable thematic role. We tested how grammatical role and thematic role predictability affect different types of referential forms, namely, overt ...
Heeju Hwang, Suet Ying Lam, Wenjing Ni, He Ren   +3 more
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Anaphora resolution and reanalysis during L2 sentence processing: evidence from the visual world paradigm [PDF]

, 2016
In a visual world paradigm study, we manipulated gender congruence between a subject pronoun and two antecedents to investigate whether L2 learners with a null subject first language (L1) acquire and process overt subject pronouns in a non-null subject ...
Cunnings, Ian, Fotiadou, Georgia, Tsimpli, Ianthi   +2 more
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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, Paij Lintz, Amy Pratt, Mariana Vega-Mendoza, Juliana De la Mora, Myriam Cantú-Sánchez, Blanca Flores-Avalos   +6 more
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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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Анафорична обробка нульової форми займенника монолінгвами-носіями бразильського варіанта португальської: онлайн дослідження [PDF]

, 2020
The aim of this paper was to investigate anaphoric processing of the null pronoun in Brazilian Portuguese and determine whether the perception of morphological gender features has a disambiguating effect during the process of reading.
Barbosa, Matheus de Almeida, Ferrari-Neto, José, Holanda, Karla Araújo Pinheiro de, Melo, Rita de Cássia Freire de, Барбоса, Матеус де Алмейда, Голанда, Карла, Мело, Ріта, Феррарі-Нето, Жозе   +7 more
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S-Duality and Exact Type IIB Superstring Backgrounds [PDF]

, 1996
A geometrical approach in the non-symmetric connection framework is employed to examine the issue of higher order $\alpha'$ corrections to D=10 type IIB superstring backgrounds with a covariantly constant null Killing isometry and non-zero Ramond-Ramond ...
A. Font, A. Giveon, A. Kumar, A. Sen, A. Tseytlin, A. Tseytlin, A. Tseytlin, A. Tseytlin, C. Duval, C. M. Hull, D. Friedan, D. Polyakov, E. Bergshoeff, E. Bergshoeff, E. Witten, G. Horowitz, G. Horowitz, G. Horowitz, Gautam Sengupta, H. Brinkmann, H. Brinkmann, H. Osborn, J. Dai, J. G. Russo, J. H. Schwarz, J. Polchinski, N. Kaloper, R. Guven, S. Kar   +28 more
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On Subject Pronouns in Finnish-Italian Bilinguals: Effects of Cross-linguistic Influence on Discourse-pragmatics Competence

Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali, 2019
The distribution of overt pronouns has been the focus of much interest in the last decades as it is considered a typical phenomenon of the syntax-discourse/pragmatics interface, a locus of variability in different kinds of language acquisition (bilingual,
Lena Dal Pozzo
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Simple Wald tests of the fractional integration parameter : an overview of new results [PDF]

, 2008
This paper presents an overview of some new results regarding an easily implementable Wald test-statistic (EFDF test) of the null hypotheses that a time-series process is I(1) or I(0) against fractional I(d) alternatives, with d∈(0,1), allowing for ...
Dolado, Juan José, Gonzalo, Jesús, Mayoral, Laura   +2 more
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If agreement is pronominal there is no pro-drop

Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics
Using Irish, Spanish and English data, I argue that the null subject phenomenon is modulated by the presence/absence of unvalued φ-features in the clausal structure.
Luis López
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