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What May Statistics Tell Us About Null Subjects in Russian?
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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Micro-variation in subject realization and interpretation: an introduction
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
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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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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Subject ellipsis in early child English
English-speaking children are known to omit subjects. Parametric analyses of the phenomenon have the advantage to give a simple answer to why children omit subjects and how they reach an adult grammar: the problem is reduced to a matter of parameter ...
Karina Bertolino
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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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Practically all Romance languages have complement clitic pronouns which basically replace the arguments of a verb. Only a sub-area of Romance, extending from France through northern Italy to the Adriatic Sea, also has subject clitics, connected to the ...
Paola Benincà
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:In this paper I offer data showing that Kashubian, Polish, and Silesian have a largely parallel system of impersonals with a syntactically projected subject. In the structures with agreeing verbal morphology such as (most) modal impersonals in Kashubian,
Marta Ruda
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Acquisition of a null subject language
This study analyzes the use of pro-drop in speech among children between the ages2;0- 4;8 acquiring Turkish as a native language. The data analyzed is part of theCHILDES data base and includes cross-sectional language data from a total of 48children. The data was categorized according to the type of verb (verbal, nonverbal, existential or imperative ...
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The processing of subject pronouns in highly proficient L2 speakers of English
Studies on second language (L2) anaphora resolution have mainly focused on learners of null-subject languages, demonstrating that L2 speakers show residual indeterminacy in the L2 referential choice, even at the highest levels of proficiency.
Carla Contemori, Paola E. Dussias
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