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Overt subjects in early Basque and other null subject languages

International Journal of Bilingualism, 2013
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.
Maria JOSÉ Ezeizabarrena
exaly   +3 more sources

Variationist typology: Shared probabilistic constraints across (non-)null subject languages

Linguistics, 2019
A key parameter in received classifications of language types is the expression of pronominal subjects. Here we compare variation patterns in conversational data of English – considered a non-null-subject language – and Spanish – a well-studied null ...
Catherine Travis
exaly   +2 more sources

The interpretation of pro in consistent and partial null-subject languages

Oxford Scholarship Online, 2018
This chapter deals with the acceptability and interpretation of referential null subjects (NSs) and compares consistent pro-drop in Italian with equivalent sentences in Finnish (a partial NS language), in different syntactic constructions (matrix ...
M. Frascarelli
exaly   +2 more sources

Null Subjects in the Romance Languages

Abstract 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 ...
exaly   +2 more sources

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 ...
H. Barnes
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

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