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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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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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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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NULL SUBJECTS IN OLD GERMANIC LANGUAGES
Філологічні студії, 2020 The article outlines the approaches to defining universal subjecthood properties from cognitive, generative, and functional perspectives. Three types of languages are distinguished according to the type of null subjects they allow – pro-drop, topic-drop,
Г. Зінченко
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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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The Setting of the Null Subject Parameters across (Non-)Null-Subject Languages
LanguagesThis 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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Preverbal subjects in null subject languages are not necessarily dislocated
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2002 In recent work on null subject languages it has been claimed that preverbal subjects are always (clitic-)left dislocated. In this paper, we argue against this claim, on the grounds of empirical evidence from European Portuguese concerning agreement facts,
Inês Duarte, João Costa
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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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EPP revisited: evidence from null subject languages* [PDF]
Selected papers on theoretical and applied linguistics, 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 rich verbal morphology (e.g.
Sifaki, Evi, Sitaridou, Ioanna
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On the Relationship Between Null Subjects and Agreement: A Large-Scale Cross-Linguistic Account
Linguistic Discovery, 2021 It is generally assumed that languages with rich agreement allow null subjects, while languages with poor agreement do not. However, the concept of agreement richness has been remarkably difficult to define. This study, based on a sample of 403 languages,
Ernei Ribeiro Pereira
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