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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.
Evi Sifaki, Ioanna Sitaridou
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SVO and EPP in Null Subject Languages and Germanic
ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 1995 In this paper we will examine SVO/VS(O) alternations across languages (Greek/Spanish, English, Icelandic ) within the framework of the Minimalist Program (cf. Chomsky 1995) that restricts optional operations.
A. Alexiadou, E. Anagnostopoulou
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Personal/impersonal and subject/null subject phenomena in the multi-structural languages
XLinguaeThe study examines the functional potential of impersonal pronouns in different languages. The aim of this study is to analyze personal/impersonal and subject/null subject phenomena in multi-structural languages.
R. Z. Muryasov +2 more
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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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A review of the repeated name penalty: implications for null subject languages
Revista Linguística, 2012 This is a critical review of the anaphoric processing delay known as the Repeated Name Penalty (RNP: Gordon, Grosz, & Gilliom, 1993). In this paper I argue that the RNP should be understood as an interaction effect between the anaphor type and the discourse prominence of the referent, and not merely as a pairwise comparison between sentences with ...
C. G. Lezama
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On the null-subject phenomenon
Oxford Scholarship Online, 2018 This chapter offers an up-to-date discussion of the multiple issues raised by the null-subject phenomenon and the theoretical analyses put forth within Generative Grammar, situating the volume’s chapters within current scholarship. Starting from Rizzi’s (
Federica Cognola, Jan Casalicchio
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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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Revista de Estudos da Linguagem, 2022 : In this paper, I claim that a parametric view on change in pro-drop does not contradict the fact that not all the Partial Null Subject (PNS) languages display identical properties.
Nerea Madariaga
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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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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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