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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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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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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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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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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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Null Subjects in Non-Pro-Drop Languages: The Lens on French
LanguagesThe contrast between languages such as Italian that allow subjects of tensed sentences to be null (i.e., pro-drop languages) and those like French that do not (i.e., non-pro-drop languages) is a classic issue for comparative syntactic research ...
Mara Frascarelli, Frascarelli Mara
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A person approach to impersonal passive in Null Subject Languages and elsewhere
Al-Lisaniyyat, 2018 In this article, we propose a novel approach to impersonal passive in null subject languages (NSLs), and elsewhere, based mainly on Pers (on) feature. This Person feature is associated with a silent unpronounced pronoun, i.e.
Mohammed Q.Shormani
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On the Early Acquisition of (Null) Subjects in Catalan as a Heritage Language
Romanica CracoviensiaLanguages vary as to whether subjects must be overtly expressed. Much research has focused on how this phenomenon is acquired by monolingual and simultaneous bilingual children.
Laia Arnaus Gil, Amelia Jiménez-Gaspar
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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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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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