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Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2004 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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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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Null Subjects in European and Brazilian Portuguese
Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2005 The goals of this paper are twofold: a) to provide a structural account of the effects of the informal ‘Avoid Pronoun Principle’, proposed in Chomsky (1981: 65) for the Null Subject Languages (NSLs), and b) to compare, in European and Brazilian ...
Maria do Pilar Pereira Barbosa +2 more
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Focused verbal inflections in Spanish
Isogloss, 2021 Spanish allows to focus the Number and Person features of the verbal inflection to produce an interpretation similar to that of a contrastively focused pronoun. This squib discusses two properties distinguishing both phenomena.
Carlos Muñoz Pérez, Matías Verdecchia
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The Effect of Semantic and Discourse Features on the Use of Null and Overt Subjects - A Quantitative Study of Third Person Subjects in Brazilian Portuguese [PDF]
DELTA: Documentação de Estudos em Lingüística Teórica e Aplicada, 2020 In a corpus study and two acceptability experiments, we investigate whether semantic and discourse features of the antecedents affect the use of null and overt subjects in Brazilian Portuguese.
Eduardo Correa Soares +2 more
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Indefinite readings of referential null subjects and null objects in Spanish
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2023 It has been claimed in the literature that referential null subjects receive definite readings in consistent null-subject languages, like Spanish. That is why they are said to display the typical behavior of definite pronouns (pro). However, referential
Carlos Martínez García
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Dative experiencers and (null) subjects in Peninsular Spanish infinitives
Isogloss, 2022 Dative experiencers have been argued to have certain subject properties in finite domains. The question thus arises whether they can ever be controlled like structural (null) subjects.
Peter Herbeck
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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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Microparametric variation in the syntax of Spanish and Greek pronominal subjects
Glossa, 2020 The present research aims to investigate the interface phenomenon of third-person subject distribution in two prototypical null subject (NS) languages, Greek and Spanish focusing on Chilean Spanish, in adult monolingual speakers.
Aretousa Giannakou, Ioanna Sitaridou
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The Distribution of Subjects in L2 Spanish by Greek Learners
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Our study examines the expression and position of subjects in L2 acquisition, two phenomena that are studied within the framework of the Interface Hypothesis (IH).
Panagiota Margaza, Anna Gavarró
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