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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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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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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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Contrastive pronouns in null-subject Romance languages [PDF]
Lingua, 2010 Overt subject pronouns in Romance null subject languages are mandatory in order to express contrast, while null subject pronouns are generally prohibited in these contexts. However, most of the literature remains vague of what is meant by contrast. This paper argues that non-focal Romance contrastive pronouns are Contrastive Topics, which trigger topic
Laia Mayol
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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, Giorgio Carella
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Age of Onset and Dominance in the Choice of Subject Anaphoric Devices: Comparing Natives and Near-Natives of Two Null-Subject Languages. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2018 Several studies have highlighted the role of cross-linguistic influence in determining the over-use of overt subject pronouns in near-native speakers of a null-subject language as Italian.
Di Domenico E, Baroncini I.
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LinguisticsInterpretive differences between overt subject pronouns relative to null subject pronouns are commonly considered a defining property of Consistent Null Subject Languages (CNSLs), in contradistinction to Partial Null Subject Languages (PNSLs).
Ruda Marta, Huang Nick
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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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Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, 2019 In this study, we investigate how prosodic cues are used when an overt pronoun is associated with either a subject or an object antecedent in Italian and in Swedish.
Chiara Gargiulo +2 more
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