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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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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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Spatial verbs are demonstration verbs
Revista Linguística, 2020 The literature has been divided over the question of whether spatial verbs should be subsumed into a single verb class with agreement verbs. The main point of contention has been that, even if the nature of the elements that these verb types agree with ...
Marloes Oomen
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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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Filaggrin null mutations are associated with atopic dermatitis and elevated levels of IgE in the Japanese population: a family and case–control study [PDF]
, 2008 Filaggrin (FLG) plays an important role in the barrier function of the skin. Several loss-of-function mutations in the FLG gene have been identified in patients with ichthyosis vulgaris, and these null mutations are associated with atopic dermatitis (AD)
Arinami Tadao +14 more
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Knotted solutions, from electromagnetism to fluid dynamics
, 2017 Knotted solutions to electromagnetism and fluid dynamics are investigated, based on relations we find between the two subjects. We can write fluid dynamics in electromagnetism language, but only on an initial surface, or for linear perturbations, and we ...
Alves, Daniel W. F. +3 more
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False discovery rate analysis of brain diffusion direction maps [PDF]
, 2007 Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) is a novel modality of magnetic resonance imaging that allows noninvasive mapping of the brain's white matter. A particular map derived from DTI measurements is a map of water principal diffusion directions, which are ...
Dougherty, Robert F. +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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Does the Referential Hierarchy influence subject and object omission in L2 English?
IsoglossThis 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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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 +1 more
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