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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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On the interpretation of null arguments in L2 Japanese by European non-pro-drop and pro-drop language speakers

Journal of the European Second Language Association, 2017
We report that (i) European 'pro-drop' language learners of Japanese as a foreign language (L1 Spanish) ('pro-drop' JFLs) allowed a sloppy interpretation of null arguments beginning at the primary stage of L2 development, and that (ii) European non-pro ...
Kazumi Yamada, Yoichi Miyamoto
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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, Masoud Asadi, Shaban Barimani   +2 more
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Radical Pro Drop and the Morphology of Pronouns [PDF]

Linguistic Inquiry, 2007
We propose a new generalization governing the crosslinguistic distribution of radical pro drop (the type of pro drop found in Chinese). It occurs only in languages whose pronouns are agglutinating for case, number, or some other nominal feature. Other types of languages cannot omit pronouns freely, although they may have agreement-based pro drop. This
Ad Neeleman, Kriszta Szendroi
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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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If agreement is pronominal there is no pro-drop

Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics
Using Irish, Spanish and English data, I argue that the null subject phenomenon is modulated by the presence/absence of unvalued φ-features in the clausal structure.
Luis López
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Null Subjects in Non-Pro-Drop Languages: The Lens on French

Languages
The contrast between languages such as Italian that allow subjects of tensed sentences to be null (i.e., pro-drop languages) and those like French that do not (i.e., non-pro-drop languages) is a classic issue for comparative syntactic research ...
Mara Frascarelli, Giorgio Carella
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['Experimenting with pro-drop in Telugu and Indian English'] [PDF]

Kansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2019
Kothakonda Suman
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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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