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Microvariation in null subject languages

2010
This chapter focuses on linguistic variation within Romance languages, providing a reinterpretation of Uriagereka’s (1988a; 1995a; 1995b) FP, a left peripheral projection whose role is parasitic on language specific morphological properties. In the context of Phase Theory, I suggest to recast FP as a property of phase heads boosting their left ...
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Qumran Hebrew as a null subject language

South African Journal of Linguistics, 1991
In die beginsel-en-parameterbenadering van Chomskyaanse generatiewe grammatika verteenwoordig die inisiele staat van taal 'n sisteem van aangebore formele beginsels met geassosieerde oop parameters...
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Overt subjects in early Basque and other null subject languages

International Journal of Bilingualism, 2012
This study focuses on person marking in early Basque and other null subject languages. From very early on, person marking on the verb and quite regular, adult-like, null subject rates are attested across early acquisition studies on genetically related and unrelated pro-drop languages.
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Null Subjects in the Romance Languages

Some Romance languages have null subjects, that is, these languages have the capacity of leaving the subject of the sentence unexpressed. The property of having null subjects is not uniform across Romance. Different Romance languages have different types of null subjects, which has an impact on their distribution and interpretation.
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The Null Subject Parameter in Language Acquisition

1989
Within a parameterized theory of grammar such as that proposed within the Government/Binding Theory of Chomsky (1981), grammatical development is viewed as a process whereby the child ‘fixes’ the parameters of Universal Grammar (UG) at the values which are appropriate for the particular adult language he is to acquire.
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Null subjects: A problem for parameter-setting models of language acquisition

Cognition, 1990
Some languages, like English, require overt surface subjects, while others, like Italian and Spanish, allow "null" subjects. How does the young child determine whether or not her language allows null subjects? Modern parameter-setting theory has proposed a solution, in which the child begins acquisition with the null subject parameter set for either ...
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Subject pronoun expression in bilinguals of two null subject languages

2010
This paper examines subject pronoun expression in the speech of Spanish-Veneto bilinguals in central Mexico. Non-target subject expression has been found among adult language learners, heritage speakers, and speakers undergoing L1 attrition. Such patterns have been variously attributed to transfer/interference and loss of discourse-pragmatic ...
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Revisiting variation between null subject languages

2021
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Brazilian and European Portuguese and Holmberg’s 2005 typology of null subject languages

Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 2021
Ana Maria Martins, Jairo Nunes, Martins Ana Maria   +2 more
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BRAZILIAN SIGN LANGUAGE: A PARTIAL NULL-SUBJECT LANGUAGE?

2020
Silva, Anderson Almeida Da, Tavares, Claudia Roberta   +1 more
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