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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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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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What May Statistics Tell Us About Null Subjects in Russian?
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2022 The article highlights the linguistic phenomenon of abandoning the expletively presented syntactic subject (the Null Subject Phenomenon) in different languages and focuses on its exemplification by the Russian language.
Polina Eismont
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Null arguments and the inverse problem
Glossa, 2021 Native speakers can reconstruct null arguments from a linear string of words where they are notoriously absent. How they solve this problem remains an unsolved and largely unaddressed issue.
Pauli Brattico
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Field-Testing Code-Switching Constraints: A Report on a Strategic Languages Project
Languages, 2019 The present article provides an overview of ongoing field-based research that deploys a variety of interactive experimental procedures in three strategically chosen bilingual contact environments, whose language dyads facilitate a partial separation of ...
John M. Lipski
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Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 2019 Based on original data collected through an online experiment, evidence is provided in this paper that the interpretation of null subjects in a radical pro-drop language like Chinese relies on the topic criterion proposed for consistent and partial pro ...
Frascarelli Mara, Casentini Marco
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Hebrew as a partial null‐subject language*
Studia Linguistica, 2009 Abstract. To account for the tense‐wise and person‐wise uneven distribution of null subjects in Hebrew, we argue first that Hebrew finite T can have either a full phi set – with person and number, a partial one – with number only or no phi set at all. Second, Hebrew pro is argued to lack a person feature. Feature matching with T consequently fails when
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Icelandic as a partial null subject language—Evidence from fake indexicals
, 2017 The distribution and licensing of null subjects has been a much debated topic in generative grammar. In many recent works, Anders Holmberg has proposed an enlightening typology that distinguishes between three types of null subject languages (see \citealt{Holmberg2005,Holmberg2010finnish,Holmberg2010Null,HolmbergSheehan2010}): consistent null subject ...
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LinguisticsInterpretive differences between overt subject pronouns relative to null subject pronouns are commonly considered a defining property of Consistent Null Subject Languages (CNSLs), in contradistinction to Partial Null Subject Languages (PNSLs).
Ruda Marta, Huang Nick
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Speaker subject expression with verbs of cognition – think/believe in Italian and Spanish
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic LinguisticsIn this paper, we study 1st person subject pronoun realization with verbs of cognition in spoken Spanish and Italian corpus data. Previous studies have shown particularly frequent overt subjects with 1st person singular (yo) creo ‘(I) think/believe’ in ...
Peter Herbeck +2 more
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