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Revisiting the Null Subject Parameter: New Insights from Afro-Peruvian Spanish
Isogloss, 2017 With the advent of the Minimalist Program (Chomsky 1995), the prevailing view of linguistic variation and contrast within universal Grammar has undergone a shift from rigidly defined parameters ˗associated with clusters of properties (Chomsky 1981 ...
Sandro Sessarego +1 more
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The Setting of the Null Subject Parameters across (Non-)Null-Subject Languages
LanguagesThis article explores a learning model for acquiring a variety of null and non-null-subject languages (i.e., consistent, partial, semi and non-null-subject languages).
Karina Bertolino
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Isogloss, 2020 This paper readdresses one of the most conspicuous syntactic traits of varieties of Caribbean Spanish that has been on the research agenda ever since its detection almost a hundred years ago: the preverbal occurrence of subjects in interrogatives with a ...
Michael Zimmermann
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AAiMLL: Acquisition Advantages in MultiLingual Learners: The Case of the Multilingual Child
Languages, 2023 Cognitive science has demonstrated that multilinguals (including children) show a cognitive advantage over monolinguals. Linguistics has provided evidence that multilinguals (including children) are able to successfully separate their lexicons and ...
Natascha Müller
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Cadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos, 2021 The aim of this article is twofold. In the first place, we present evidence that the syntactic change towards overt pronominal subjects observed in Brazilian Portuguese is not a stable phenomenon; rather, our empirical results allow to follow the ...
Maria Eugenia Lamoglia Duarte +1 more
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What May Statistics Tell Us About Null Subjects in Russian?
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2022 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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Fortune and Decay of Lexical Expletives in Germanic and Romance along the Adige River
Languages, 2023 Lexical expletives can be divided into two main classes: (i) CP expletives required by the V2 constraint and, hence, by the necessity to lexicalize the position on the left of the inflected verb and (ii) TP expletives connected with the negative value of
Alessandra Tomaselli, Ermenegildo Bidese
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Circumventing the ‘That-Trace’ Effect: Different Strategies between Germanic and Romance
Languages, 2021 In our paper, we deal with the Germanic–Romance language contact, focusing on Cimbrian, a Germanic minority language spoken in Northern Italy. Specifically, we focus on the violation of the well-known that-trace filter, as it appears to be an interesting
Andrea Padovan +2 more
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Brazilian Portuguese and the Null Subject Parameter [PDF]
Mester, 1984 [No abstract]
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Simple Wald tests of the fractional integration parameter : an overview of new results [PDF]
, 2008 This paper presents an overview of some new results regarding an easily implementable Wald test-statistic (EFDF test) of the null hypotheses that a time-series process is I(1) or I(0) against fractional I(d) alternatives, with d∈(0,1), allowing for ...
Dolado, Juan José +2 more
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