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Agreement and Focus in Galician Inflected Infinitives

open access: yesKansas Working Papers in Linguistics, 2004
In Galician Inflected Infinitive (henceforth II) clauses we can get the subject in three different positions: postverbal, preverbal or at the very end of the clause.
Couto, María del Carmen Parafita
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South Dravidian Languages: Consistent Null Subject or Discourse Pro-Drop?

open access: yesInternational Journal of Linguistics, 2023
Indian languages are not mentioned in any of the canonical literature on null subject languages as they do not fall in a specific subcategory neatly. They show a relatively consistent conjugation system, but have more features of Radical pro-drop languages than Consistent Null-Subject languages.
openaire   +1 more source

Can the Pro-Drop Parameter Account for All the Errors in the Acquisition of Non-Referential It in L2 English?

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2015
Numerous studies, examining the acquisition of non-referential it in [-pro-drop] English by learners of [+pro-drop] languages, have revealed that their participants omit non-referential subjects in English if their L1 allows null-subject position ...
Elena Antonova-Ünlü
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Getting in the first word: Prosody and predicate initial sentences in Serbian

open access: yesGlossa, 2017
Second position clitics in Serbian are informally characterized in terms of their hosts which correspond to either the first word or the first phrase within some clitic positioning domain.
Draga Zec, Molly Diesing
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La référence impersonnelle humaine en langue des signes française

open access: yesTIPA. Travaux interdisciplinaires sur la parole et le langage, 2018
The study presented in this paper is a first systematic approach to the expression of the impersonal human reference in French sign language (LSF). It extends and deepens a prior study carried out by the authors on the basis of a large scale discourse ...
Brigitte Garcia   +3 more
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On finite subject-to-object raising in Spanish

open access: yesBorealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2020
In this paper, we analyze inflected complements of perceptive, causative and permissive verbs in which the null subject is obligatorily co-referent with the matrix object antecedent.
Peter Herbeck
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Chomsky's Universal Grammar: A Case of Its Concepts of Government/Binding Theory

open access: yesTEFLIN Journal, 2001
: The purpose of this paper is to see the universality of the Government/Binding Theory in its concepts of government, the pro-drop parameter, and binding theory. Three languages – English, Indone­sian, and Javanese – are analyzed based on the three
Y.M. Harsono
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Generale e particolare nelle descrizioni e nelle spiegazioni linguistiche

open access: yesAtti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2019
General and particular in linguistic descriptions and explanations. This paper presents a theoretical and methodological reflection on the relevance of particulars in linguistic descriptions and explanations and emphasizes the need to conjugate ...
Rosanna Sornicola
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Expletives in Modern Persian

open access: yesActa Linguistica Asiatica, 2012
It has generally been argued that Persian does not include dummy elements called expletives, in spite of the existence of the morpheme ǐn which shows the behavior of an expletive in specific constructions.
Abolfazl MOSAFFA JAHROMI
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Understanding Partiality in pro-Drop Languages: An Information-Structure Approach

open access: yes, 2019
. This article explores the acceptability and interpretation of referential null subjects in several varieties of Spanish (both Peninsular and American varieties) in different syntactic contexts (matrix and embedded) and distinct clause types (under ...
Frascarelli M.   +5 more
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