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Null Subjects in Gothic

American Journal of Germanic Linguistics and Literatures, 2000
Several kinds of systematic deviations from the Greek original, including simple insertions and omissions of subject pronouns and transformations of nonfinite or impersonal Greek constructions into personal finite clauses, provide evidence concerning the distribution of null and overt referential subject pronouns in Gothic. While the evidence leaves no
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The Syntax of Null Subjects

Syntax, 2014
AbstractThis paper presents a case study of a group of null‐subject languages in which there is referentialprothat fails to satisfy the Extended Projection Principle (EPP) because it does not move to Spec,TP. Thus, this group of null‐subject languages contrasts with the more familiar type of null‐subject languages, such as Romance and Greek, in which ...
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Null Subjects Are Reflexives, Not Pronouns

2007
It has been a prevalent assumption in the literature that phonetically null Subjects of finite clauses are pronouns. This paper examines in detail this empirical generalization and argues that null Subjects are reflexives rather than pronouns. The critical point at stake here, which has obscured appropriate classification, is that null Subjects are ...
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From a Romance null subject grammar to a non-null subject grammar

2019
Abstract This study investigates the acquisition of pronominal subjects by advanced and near-native speakers of English whose L1s are European Portuguese (EP), a null subject language (NSL), and French, a non-NSL (NNSL). Two experimental tasks were
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Null Subjects in Swabian

Studia Linguistica, 2013
AbstractFew studies have investigated referential null subjects in present‐day non‐standard varieties of German. This paper explores the distribution of 4,000 null and overt referential subjects in finite clauses in a new corpus of spoken Swabian, a North Alemannic dialect spoken in Southwest Germany.
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Comparing null subjects and null objects

Abstract This paper presents a corpus-based analysis of the antecedent preferences of anaphoric null objects in European Portuguese. It suggests that the sentential domain, the syntactic function, and the animacy of the antecedent determine the selection of the referent of null objects, similar to what has been ...
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Null Subjects and Control

2002
Abstract The standard, albeit problematical, assumption that PRO and pro are distinct is retained as a working hypothesis. Safir (1996: 84ff.) discusses criteria to differentiate PRO and pro: (i) pro, but not PRO, can be a resumptive pronoun in relative clauses in null subject languages; (ii) pro, but not PRO, can be an expletive; (iii ...
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Null Subject Phenomena

1995
Abstract This chapter surveys the range of problems associated with the analysis of null subjects in the Slavic languages.1 In it are explored some of the ramifications of recent proposals within GB theory about the factors motivating case assignment to subject position.
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The Null Subject Phenomenon

1986
One of the most noticeable characteristics of early language is the frequent absence of lexical subjects. Sentences like those in (1) have been attested in every study of the early periods in the acquisition of English (McNeil, 1966; Gruber, 1967; Menyuk, 1969; Bloom, 1970; Braine, 1976, among others).
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Analysis of Null Subjects

1999
Before proceeding to a simulation of bilingual learning, it is important to present a pivotal feature of this inquiry. While I am examining Spanish-English and Chinese-English grammars acquire of the current theories of parameter-setting within the UG framework d by bilingual children, the key focus is on the Null Subject Parameter (NSP ...
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