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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Null Arguments"”.
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The role of case-marked noun phrases in clause structure building
… issues revolving around the so-called null categories – both null arguments and null predicates – are resolved; null predicates are licensed strictly by syntax, while null arguments are not syntactically licensed. Rather, missing arguments mean the structural absence of the arguments. …
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Chinese Null and Covert Arguments and their Behaviours in L2 Chinese Grammars
… Abundant L2 studies on the IH have focused on null-subject languages with rich inflection. By contrast, less attention has been paid to L2 acquisition of null arguments in languages with no subject-verb agreement, like Chinese. To fill in this gap, this study investigates the interpretation of …
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Clitics and agreement
… the clitics as agreement heads that identify null arguments in their specifiers. In contrast to previous accounts, the need for phonological operations is drastically reduced, being restricted to sentences containing only a verb (in which prosodic inversion applies as a last resort). In the …
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(implicit) Argument Introduction, Voice And Causatives
… syntactic and semantic properties of implicit arguments in various voice constructions, such as active and passive voice, applicatives, causatives and impersonals, using mainly Sason Arabic (SA) and Turkish as empirical starting points. I add to the typology of null arguments, further …
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Cycles of agreement: Romance clitics in diachrony
… coordination, and doubling. I demonstrate that null subjects and null objects relate to the stages of the SAC and the OAC. Null arguments are allowed in a language only if that language has reached stage (c) of the relevant cycle. I extend a D-feature and topic-identification type of analysis …