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Chapter 13. From a Romance null subject grammar to a non-null subject grammar

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 2019
Null subjects and “free” inversion are traditionally considered to be among the cluster of properties that distinguish null subject languages (NSLs), like European Portuguese (EP) and Italian, from non-null subject languages (NNSLs), like English and ...
Joana Teixeira
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Chapter 9. Brazilian and European Portuguese and Holmberg’s 2005 typology of null subject languages

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory, 2021
A. Martins, Jairo Nunes
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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 Doubling, Free Inversion, and Null Argument Languages

Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique, 1986
The aim of this paper is twofold. First, I shall propose a unified account of the subject doubling construction and point out its similarities and differences with respect to object doubling — the so-called clitic doubling. The discussion is based on Trentino, a northern dialect of Italian, and Colloquial French.
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Revisiting variation between null subject languages

2021
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Reference comprehension and production in bilingual Spanish: The view from null subject languages

, 2016
Aurora Bel, Estela Garcia-Alcaraz, E. Rosado   +2 more
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Pro-drop and Theories of pro in the Minimalist Program Part 1: Consistent Null Subject Languages and the Pronominal-Agr Hypothesis

Language and Linguistics Compass, 2011
Pilar P. Barbosa
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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, Nunes Jairo
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An A-Binding Asymmetry in Null Subject Languages and Its Significance for Universal Grammar

Linguistic Inquiry, 2006
Phoevos Panagiotidis, Stavroula Tsiplakou   +1 more
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