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What May Statistics Tell Us About Null Subjects in Russian?
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2022 The article highlights the linguistic phenomenon of abandoning the expletively presented syntactic subject (the Null Subject Phenomenon) in different languages and focuses on its exemplification by the Russian language.
Polina Eismont
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Contexts for null subjects in contemporary Brazilian Portuguese
Revista Linguística, 2022 Null subjects have been extensively investigated in natural languages. Brazilian Portuguese (BP), in particular, raises a lot of interest in the subject, for it is apparently in a process of grammatical change, from a pro-drop language to a partial pro ...
Mônica Rigo Ayres +1 more
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Micro-variation in subject realization and interpretation: an introduction
Glossa, 2021 In this introduction to the Special Collection of the same title, we start out by discussing some key issues addressed by recent research on micro-variation in subject realization and interpretation in anaphoric contexts (Section 1).
Elisa Di Domenico, Simona Matteini
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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 +2 more
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Unagreement is an illusion [PDF]
, 2016 This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11049-015-9311-yThis paper proposes an analysis of unagreement, a phenomenon involving an apparent mismatch between a definite third ...
Ad Neeleman +103 more
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'Most' vs. 'the most' in languages where 'the more' means 'most' [PDF]
, 2018 This paper focuses on languages in which a superlative interpretation is typically indicated merely by a combination of a definiteness marker with a comparative marker, including French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, and Greek ('DEF+CMP languages ...
Coppock, Elizabeth, Strand, Linnea
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Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2004 This paper argues that agreement is a theta-role bearer, either directly, when agreement is externally merged in a theta position, or indirectly, when it is internally merged, heading an argument chain.
Christer Platzack
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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
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O estado da arte dos estudos sobre sujeitos nulos, posições de sujeito e marcas flexionais
Revista Linguística, 2017 This text presents an overview of the studies on null subjects, subject positions, and flexional morphology, within generative grammar. The discussion will be restricted to specifc problems in this feld.
Maria Cristina Figueiredo Silva
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Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2021 The grammaticalization of nouns meaning ‘man’ or ‘person’ into impersonal pronouns (so-called man-impersonals) has been related to languages with obligatory subject expression, like Germanic languages and French.
Pekka Posio
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