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NULL SUBJECTS IN OLD GERMANIC LANGUAGES
Філологічні студії, 2020 The article outlines the approaches to defining universal subjecthood properties from cognitive, generative, and functional perspectives. Three types of languages are distinguished according to the type of null subjects they allow – pro-drop, topic-drop,
Г. Зінченко
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Preverbal subjects in null subject languages are not necessarily dislocated
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2002 In recent work on null subject languages it has been claimed that preverbal subjects are always (clitic-)left dislocated. In this paper, we argue against this claim, on the grounds of empirical evidence from European Portuguese concerning agreement facts,
Inês Duarte, João Costa
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Subject ellipsis in early child English
Ilha do Desterro, 2020 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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Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2021 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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Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2019 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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The processing of subject pronouns in highly proficient L2 speakers of English
Glossa, 2020 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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Field-Testing Code-Switching Constraints: A Report on a Strategic Languages Project
Languages, 2019 The present article provides an overview of ongoing field-based research that deploys a variety of interactive experimental procedures in three strategically chosen bilingual contact environments, whose language dyads facilitate a partial separation of ...
John M. Lipski
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Interface vulnerability in bilingual grammars?
IsoglossBilingual children typically produce more redundant pronominal subjects than monolingual children in null subject languages like Spanish in contact with non-null subject languages like English (Montrul & Sánchez-Walker, 2013; Montrul, 2004; Paradis ...
Eider Etxebarria, Silvina Montrul
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Languages, 2020 Studies have found that aspects of grammar that lie at the syntax–pragmatics interface, such as the use of pronominal subjects in null-subject languages, are likely to undergo cross-linguistic influence in bilingual speakers.
Michele Goldin
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Dual native G‐quadruplex folding is associated with chromatin looping at the MYC locus
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.BG4‐detectable G‐quadruplex (G4) in HaCaT and NHEK keratinocytes identified folded and unfolded G4s enriched at promoters/TSSs and active enhancers, whereas unfolded G4s also overlapped weak/poised enhancers. At MYC–PVT1, 3C‐qPCR detected enhancer–promoter looping only when G4s were simultaneously folded at both regulatory elements under native ...
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