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Fórum Linguístico, 2019 In a corpus study and two acceptability experiments, we investigated whether there is a preference for null or overt subjects with ambiguous (syncretic) and exclusive (unambiguous) verbs in Brazilian Portuguese (BP).
Eduardo Correa Soares +2 more
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DP Ellipsis as Independent Phenomena from pro in pro-drop Languages
Korean Journal of Linguistics, 2010 Previous studies proposed that there is no CP ellipsis in English (Kennedy and Merchant 2000) and Korean (Ahn and Cho 2009, 2010, cf. Park 2009). In particular, Ahn and Cho (2009, 2010) suggested that apparent CP ellipsis in Korean be in fact DP ellipsis (null realization of DPs in more neutral terms), which is subsumed to pro-drop in Korean ...
null Wooseung Lee, null 김지현
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The relevance of referring expressions: the case of diary drop in English [PDF]
, 2010 This thesis offers a pragmatic analysis of subjectless sentences in non-null subject languages, focusing on English ‘diary drop’ (as in ‘Saw a good film yesterday’).
Katherine J. Scott, Scott, K.J.
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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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ENGLISH AS A PRO-DROP LANGUAGE
ENGLISH AS A PRO-DROP LANGUAGESince Rizzi's (1986) seminal work on phonologically null pronominals, how to derive the classification of the so-called pro-drop languages has long been controversial in the literature. Various alternative proposals emerged, and we have gained some understanding of some nontrivial generalizations behind the phenomenon, and a number of interesting ...
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Overt and Null Subject Variation in Ammani Arabic: Distribution, Constraints, and Implications
ПсихолінгвістикаPurpose. This article investigates the distribution of overt and null subject pronouns in Ammani Arabic (AA) from a variationist perspective, identifying social and linguistic constraints that shape pronoun expression. The study examines how age, gender,
Рахаф Хатер +3 more
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Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi OrientaliThis research into the expletive demonstrative pronouns consists of a comparison between the varieties of Italian language in Florence and Pistoia and the dialect of Salerno.
Giuseppe Vitolo
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Word Order Acquisition in Persian Speaking Children
Iranian Rehabilitation Journal, 2017 Objectives: Persian is a pro-drop language with canonical Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) word order. This study investigates the acquisition of word order in Persian-speaking children.
Nahid Jalilevand +3 more
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Language and HealthLinguistic changes in later life serve as observable indicators of age-related cognitive decline, with mean length of utterance (MLU) being a widely adopted metric for assessing syntactic complexity in aging populations.
Yiran Yang +3 more
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Tamil Speakers in Switzerland: An Intergenerational and Typological Perspective
LanguagesSince the mid-1980s, many Tamils left their homeland because of the civil war in Sri Lanka (1983–2009) and for other reasons and settled in different countries. More than 40,000 Tamil migrants have come to Switzerland since then, and Tamil is spoken as a
S. Rajamathangi +2 more
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