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Microvariation in the resolution of pronominal subjects in Romance: European Portuguese vs. Italian
Isogloss, 2022 The present study investigates how adult native speakers of two null subject Romance languages, European Portuguese (EP) and Italian, interpret null and overt pronominal subjects in intrasentential contexts. Participants were 30 speakers of EP and 30 of
Alexandra Fiéis +2 more
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Pronominal subject interpretation in temporal adjuncts in child Romanian [PDF]
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2018 The present paper reports the results of an experimental study on the resolution of intra-sentential anaphora in child Romanian. In a picture-selection task, 3-, 5- and 8-year old monolingual Romanian children had to identify the matrix antecedent of 3rd
Otilia Teodorescu
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Preliminary description of Ngen pronominal elements
Mandenkan, 2022 The paper provides a preliminary description of the pronominal elements of Ngen, a South Mande language spoken in Côte d’Ivoire. Pronominal elements are divided into three groups by morpho-syntactic characteristics: subject pronouns, personal pronouns in
Tatiana Korol
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Person Matters: Relative Clauses in the Acquisition of French
Isogloss, 2022 Children’s comprehension difficulties with object relative clauses (ORs) seem reduced when the embedded subject is a pronoun, rather than a lexical noun.
Anamaria Bentea, Stephanie Durrleman
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Studies in African Linguistics, 2021 This paper investigates the principles that govern subject marking in Awing (Grassfields Bantu). We observe that the subject marker (SM) that doubles the subject is sometimes obligatory, sometimes optional and sometimes prohibited.
Henry Zamchang Fominyam, Doreen Georgi
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Clitic or Agreement Restriction in Santali: A Typological Analysis
Acta Linguistica Asiatica, 2020 This paper investigates the syntactic configuration of pronominal number marking in Santali. Syntactic, morphological and prosodic restrictions show that pronominal number markers have properties of an affix as well as a clitic. A marker is an affix due
Mayuri J. DILIP, Rajesh KUMAR
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A note on subject clitics in Akan
Studies in African Linguistics, 1998 This paper is concerned with the analysis of pronominal subject clitics (SCLs) in Akan within the Priniciples and Parameters framework of syntactic theory.
Richard Campbell
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Caligrama: Revista de Estudos Românicos, 2012 Resumo: Este trabalho visa a mostrar o comportamento do sujeito pronominal em variedades do espanhol e no italiano, línguas prototipicamente de sujeito nulo, no intuito de evidenciar o distanciamento do comportamento do português brasileiro no que se ...
Juliana Esposito Marins +1 more
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Corpus-Based Research of Simple Non-Inverted Pronominal Interrogative Constructions in English
Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2021 The research featured nuclear models of pronominal interrogative sentences with direct word order in the English language. The use of non-inverted interrogative structures depends on the analytical character of English.
Ye. N. Vorobyova
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Big words, small phrases: Mismatches between pause units and the polysynthetic word in Dalabon [PDF]
, 2015 This article uses instrumental data from natural speech to examine the phenomenon of pause placement within the verbal word in Dalabon, a polysynthetic Australian language of Arnhem Land.
Evans, Nicholas +2 more
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