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Processing pro-drop features in heritage Turkish [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Previous studies have reported that null subject is not completely lost in heritage speakers, but there is an increase in the production and acceptance of overt subjects.
Serkan Uygun
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The Pro-drop Parameter in Mazandarani [PDF]
̒Ilm-i Zabān, 2021 or unexpressed pronoun in Pro-drop languages refers to a linguistic element having a syntactic function with no phonetic representation. These kinds of languages are divided in different varieties. This article, in the first level, tries to mention the
Ali Asghar Rajabzade +2 more
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Translating Pro-Drop Languages With Reconstruction Models [PDF]
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2018 Pronouns are frequently omitted in pro-drop languages, such as Chinese, generally leading to significant challenges with respect to the production of complete translations. To date, very little attention has been paid to the dropped pronoun (DP) problem within neural machine translation (NMT).
Wang, Longyue +5 more
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Pro-drop in interrogatives and declaratives.
Linguistik Online, 2019 While there has been a substantial body of research on the asymmetry between main and subordinate clauses in terms of the licensing of pro-drop, potential differences between types of unembedded clause have received much less attention – despite the fact
Federica Cognola, George Walkden
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Clitics are not enough: on agreement and null subjects in Brazilian Venetan
Glossa, 2021 This paper presents some facts about the syntax of subject pronouns in contact. We investigate agreement and EPP-checking in Brazilian Venetan, a heritage northern Italo-Romance variety spoken in southern Brazil in contact with Brazilian Portuguese ...
Alberto Frasson
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Fortune and Decay of Lexical Expletives in Germanic and Romance along the Adige River
Languages, 2023 Lexical expletives can be divided into two main classes: (i) CP expletives required by the V2 constraint and, hence, by the necessity to lexicalize the position on the left of the inflected verb and (ii) TP expletives connected with the negative value of
Alessandra Tomaselli, Ermenegildo Bidese
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Variable First Person Singular Subject Expression in Spoken Valencian Catalan
Catalan Journal of Linguistics, 2022 In this paper, I analyze first person singular subject pronoun expression in spoken Valencian Catalan varieties. I present a quantitative and qualitative analysis of 7 interviews from the corpus Parlars, examining 1sg subject rates regarding tense ...
Peter Herbeck
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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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Glossa, 2021 This paper examines overt and covert speaker/addressee pronouns with the cognitive verbs creer ‘think/believe’ and saber ‘know’ in a corpus of spoken peninsular Spanish – the Madrid and Alcalá samples of PRESEEA (2014– ) – with a focus on 1st person ...
Peter Herbeck
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Studies in Chinese Linguistics, 2022 This paper studies echo answers to yes-no questions in Chinese with respect to their distributions, derivations, and typological patterns. We reconsider Simpson’s (2015) verb-raising analyses of verb echo answers (VEAs), finding that his analysis is ...
Wei Ting-Chi
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