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Clause structure, pro-drop and control in Wolof

open access: yesNordic Journal of African Studies, 2019
This paper provides a formal description of the syntactic analysis of core constructions of Wolof clausal/verbal morphosyntax within the Lexical-Functional Grammar formalism. This includes the basic phrase structure, pro-drop, and control relations. The
Cheikh Bamba Dione
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O PARÂMETRO DO SUJEITO NULO NA AQUISIÇÃO DA LINGUAGEM

open access: yesCadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos, 2011
This paper discusses theoretical and empirical results of a research about the null subject parameter in terms of the acquisition theory. Assuming that BP language differs from Italian language in the value of the null subject parameter, we have to deal ...
Marilza Oliveira
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The Interpretation of Null Subjects in a Radical Pro-drop Language: Topic Chains and Discourse-semantic Requirements in Chinese

open access: yesStudies 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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Experimenting with pro-drop in Telugu and Indian English [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This paper investigates pronominal subjects dropping in Telugu and Indian English and the severity of first language impact on learning and usage of a second language. Numerous languages from various language families are spoken in India.
Suman, Kothakonda
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Clitics are not enough: on agreement and null subjects in Brazilian Venetan

open access: yesGlossa, 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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Morphosyntactic and Semantic Analysis of Balochi Verbs

open access: yesUniversity of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature, 2023
Morphology is broader field of linguistics that studies the structure of words, forms of words and word-formation processes (Zeller, 2001; Zahid, A., 2016).
Khursheed Ahmad   +3 more
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Whose foot is it? Pronominal Possessives in Pro-drop Languages: An Experimental Study

open access: yesRevista Letras, 2017
No presente artigo, apresentamos um estudo experimental (tarefa off-line de julgamento de aceitabilidade) realizado com falantes nativos de Finlandes, Italiano e Portugues Brasileiro, para investigar restricoes sintaticas impostas a relacao pronome possessivo-antecedente em linguas de pro-drop pleno (Italiano) e de pro-drop parcial (Finlandes e ...
Cilene Rodrigues, Lena Dal Pozzo
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O parâmetro Pro-drop e a aquisição de segunda língua

open access: yesSemina: Ciências Sociais e Humanas, 1988
Within the Government and Binding theory (GB), it is assumed the man is equipped with some innate language structure, Universal Grammar (UG), which contains a set of inviolable principles plus some open parameters which are set by experience.
Sonia Maria Lazzarini Cyrino
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Arabic pro-drop [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The goal of this thesis is to analyze pro-drop in Arabic in terms of its syntactic properties and the nature of its optionality in discourse. The paper begins with a comprehensive review of five syntactic properties assumed to be universal to pro-drop ...
Altamimi, Mansour Ibrahim
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A Mechanism of PF-Deletion Under the Probe–Goal System

open access: yesLanguages
This paper develops a mechanism of PF-deletion within a probe–goal system that incorporates C-to-T feature inheritance. I propose that the phase head C enters the derivation not only with an edge feature (EF) and agree (φ-)features but also with a delete-
Nobu Goto
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