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After the Null Subject Parameter: Acquisition of the Null-Overt Contrast in Spanish

Language Learning and Development, 2021
In many so-called canonical null subject languages, null and overt subject pronouns have contrasting referential preferences: null subjects tend to maintain reference to the preceding subject while...
Hannah Forsythe   +2 more
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Microvariation in the Null Subject Parameter

2016
Spanish has been traditionally classified by grammatical descriptions as a language with free variation in terms of Subject-Verb order (SV versus VS), with certain syntactic-semantic and syntactic-pragmatic restrictions governing each order. This supposed free variation appears to be facing resistance in Caribbean Spanish, since available data have ...
Ashlee Dauphinais Civitello   +1 more
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The Null Subject Parameter and Parametric Theory

1989
The central challenge for modern linguistic theory is to develop a model of Universal Grammar that is, on the one hand, general enough to capture the universal features of natural language, and on the other, flexible enough to account for the variation among languages that is in fact observed.
Osvaldo Jaeggli, Kenneth J. Safir
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