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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"null subjects"”.
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Null subjects
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1995.
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You Heard the New Theory?: A Syntactic Analysis of Null Subjects and Null Auxiliaries in English
The following investigation of null subjects and null auxiliaries in English has two principle goals. First, it seeks to describe the occurrence of null subjects and null auxiliaries in English sentences. Second, it proposes a set of rules which attempt to account for the appearance of sentences …
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Spanish and Greek subjects in contact: Greek as a heritage language in Chile
… language in Chile. The focus is on null and overt third-person subjects in topic-continuity and topic-shift contexts. Such structures involve the interface between syntax and discourse/pragmatics, a vulnerable domain in bilingualism. Previous research has shown overextension of the …
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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 …
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A Psycholinguistic Investigation of Agreement in Spanish and English Monolinguals and Bilinguals
… 2 examined whether producing sentences with null subjects would increase conceptual effects on agreement in Mexican and Dominican Spanish (same participants as Experiment 1); results confirmed increased effects. Experiment 3 investigated agreement in 38 early and 70 late English-Spanish …
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Interpretation of Overt Pronouns in L1 and L2 Japanese: The Role of Context
… investigated L1 and L2 pronoun interpretation in null-subject languages like Spanish, Italian, and Greek, finding that L1 speakers tend to show a topic-shift effect for overt pronouns more often than L2ers (Sorace, 2011). Similar studies on Japanese, which allows null subjects but also differs …
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Speaking of pragmatics: Addressing discourse in Finnish and Japanese syntax
… of contrast, and different instances of nullness – the standard structures postulated for Finnish and Japanese syntax have to be reconsidered, and build up to encode additional speech act-related layers in accordance with Wiltschko and Heim’s (2016) Universal Spine Hypothesis. Chapter 3 …
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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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L’acquisition des Catégories Fonctionnelles : Étude comparative du développement du DP français chez des enfants et des apprenants adultes
… correlation between the omission of determiners, Null Subjects and Root infinitives in 2L1. The independent development of DP and CP is compatible with a structural economy approach to omissions but seems to speak against underspecification accounts that predict a parallel development of DP and …
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Cross-generational linguistic variation in the Canberra Vietnamese heritage language community: A corpus-centred investigation
… and variation in this community. Given that null elements emerge as a distinct area of difficulty in Chapter 4, I take this aspect as the focal point for the next part of the investigation (Chapter 5), where I use the variationist approach (Labov, 1972 et seq.) to explore three cases where …
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Syntaktisk variation och förändring : En studie av subjektslösa satser i fornsvenska
… (1225–1526). The thesis focuses on referential subjects, and addresses the problem of why the possibilities to leave out such subjects have been reduced during the history of Swedish. The dissertation consists of three main parts, divided into eight chapters. In the first part, chapters 1–3, the …
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The reanalysis and interpretation of garden-path sentences by native speakers and second language learners
… temporary DO/SC ambiguity. Since Mandarin allows null subjects, such a structure is temporarily ambiguous between an embedded clause and a blended structure, in which the object of the first clause is also the subject of the second clause. Results showed that verb bias trumped plausibility in …