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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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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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Filaggrin-null mutations are associated with increased maturation markers on Langerhans cells [PDF]
, 2016 Background Mutations in the gene encoding filaggrin (FLG), an epidermal structural protein, are the strongest risk factor identified for the development of atopic dermatitis (AD).
Andrew J. Muinonen-Martin +55 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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Variation in the use and interpretation of null subjects: A view from Greek and Italian
Glossa, 2020 We aim to understand whether Greek and Italian, two null subject languages, differ in the use and interpretation of null subjects, based on evidence from both a production and a comprehension experiment.
Christiane M. Bongartz +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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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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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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Prehension and perception of size in left visual neglect [PDF]
, 2001 Right hemisphere damaged patients with and without left visual neglect, and age-matched controls had objects of various sizes presented within left or right body hemispace. Subjects were asked to estimate the objects’ sizes or to reach out and grasp them,
Dijkerman, H C +4 more
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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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