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After the Null Subject Parameter: Acquisition of the Null-Overt Contrast in Spanish
Language Learning and Development, 2021In 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
2016Spanish 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 ...
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The Null Subject Parameter and Parametric Theory
1989The 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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Beyond the syntax of the Null Subject Parameter
2006This study investigates whether and how English-speaking L2 learners at various proficiency levels acquire the morphosyntactic and discourse-pragmatic properties of subject expression in Spanish. The crucial question is whether discourse-pragmatic properties are acquired together with syntactic features or later in the process of interlanguage ...
Silvina Montrul +1 more
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Two Italian Dialects and the Null Subject Parameter
1989Ever since the elaboration of the theory of Government and Binding (Chomsky 1981, 1982) within the parametric conception of Universal Grammar, one of the most debated topics in syntactic theory has been the appropriate definition of the set of properties which together constitute the NULL SUBJECT PARAMETER.
Cordin, Patrizia, L. Brandi
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The Null Subject Parameter in Language Acquisition
1989Within 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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The core content of the Null Subject Parameter
2013Introduction The notion of a macro-parameter suggests that several grammatical properties should cluster together around one core property, a conception that facilitates language acquisition (see Hyams, 1986, 1992; Liceras, 1989; Hyams and Wexler, 1993, among others) and makes fairly strict predictions about sequence of acquisition, possible and ...
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Null subjects: A problem for parameter-setting models of language acquisition
Cognition, 1990Some 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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