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When discourse met null subjects

Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2016
In this paper a novel view of the distribution of null subjects in Spanish is explored in which the discourse category which the antecedent of pro is analysed.
Angel Jimenez-Fernandez
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On finite subject-to-object raising in Spanish

Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2020
In this paper, we analyze inflected complements of perceptive, causative and permissive verbs in which the null subject is obligatorily co-referent with the matrix object antecedent.
Peter Herbeck
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Reconsidering variation and change in the Medieval French subject system

Glossa, 2020
This article draws on a novel corpus of medieval texts to explore diachronic change in the French subject system. It is argued that the relative frequency of null, preverbal and postverbal subjects is affected by changes in the syntax-information ...
Sam Wolfe
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Does language transfer explain it all? The case of first language change in Russian-English bilinguals

Russian Journal of Linguistics, 2021
The present paper discusses findings from an empirical study looking into grammatical changes of Russian as the native language under the influence of English as a foreign language in a group of Russian-English bilinguals residing in the U.S.
Ludmila Isurin
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Early subjects in child Romanian: A case study [PDF]

Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2018
This paper documents the use of early subjects in one longitudinal corpus of monolingual Romanian. The focus is on the null/overt and preverbal/postverbal subject alternation, as well as on pragmatic adequacy.
Otilia Teodorescu
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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, Maria Eugênia Lammoglia Duarte, Mary Aizawa Kato   +2 more
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Expletive Subject Clitics in Northern Italo-Romance

Languages, 2022
This article examines the syntax of subject clitics in northern Italian dialects. Statistical analysis is performed on a sample of 350 dialects to show that the co-variation between syntactic variables is significant.
Diego Pescarini
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Brazilian Portuguese

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, Juliana Esposito Marins   +1 more
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On the movement analysis of null subjects in Brazilian Portuguese: Experimental results from extraction of embedded subjects

Isogloss, 2019
There is an on-going debate on the empirical adequacy of the movement approach to definite null subjects in Brazilian Portuguese, BP (cf. Ferreira 2000, Rodrigues 2004, and Nunes 2009).
Claudia Coelho, Jairo Nunes, Leticia Santos   +2 more
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Does the Referential Hierarchy influence subject and object omission in L2 English?

Isogloss
This study examines the role of the Referential Hierarchy, as proposed by Cyrino, Duarte, & Kato (2000) based on diachronic data from Brazilian Portuguese (BP), in the restructuring of pronominal systems in L2 English.
Alexandra Fiéis, Joana Teixeira
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