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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"subject pronoun"”.
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The second language acquisition of subject pronoun distribution in English, Italian and Polish: testing the Interface Hypothesis
… testing for the second language acquisition of subject pronoun distribution in structures posited to contain i) narrow syntax and ii) syntax-discourse interface properties in three languages which vary in their realisation of these properties: English, Italian and Polish. 118 speakers of L1 …
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Continuidad y cambio en los condicionantes lingüísticos y socio-demográficos del uso del pronombre sujeto en el español de la primera generación en Nueva York
… speakers born in NYC. Through the study of the subject pronoun variable, this dissertation explores whether the hierarchies of variables and constraints are the same in these two groups coming to NYC from Latin America.</p> <p>For the purpose of this research, as in other sociolinguistics …
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Motivaciones comunicativas para la expresión de sujeto en secuencias clausales correferenciales en español
<p>This dissertation examines subject expression in co-referential clauses in Spanish from a functional and discourse perspective. The purpose of this quantitative and qualitative investigation is to provide a strategy of communication that accounts for the presence or absence of subject expression …
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The Syntax of the Nominal Forms of the Verb in Livy Book XXX
… The treatment of the verbals is based upon the subject matter relative to these forms contained in Stols-Sehmalz, Lateinische Grammatik, 5th ed., revised by M. Leumann and J. B. Hofmann, Munich, 1928. No consideration, however, has been given to the following topics: the use of the perfect …
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The Acquisition of Subject Pronouns in Second Language Spanish
… languages like Spanish. Pro-drop languages allow subject pronouns to be expressed overtly, as in the Spanish phrase Yo veo (I see), or null, as in Veo (*Ø see). Studies show that native speaker distribution of subject pronouns deals with the interface of narrow syntax and features of discourse, …
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The Acquisition of Subject Pronouns in Second Language Spanish
… languages like Spanish. Pro-drop languages allow subject pronouns to be expressed overtly, as in the Spanish phrase Yo veo (I see), or null, as in Veo (*Ø see). Studies show that native speaker distribution of subject pronouns deals with the interface of narrow syntax and features of discourse, …
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Spanish and Greek subjects in contact: Greek as a heritage language in Chile
… study aims to capture linguistic variation in subject distribution of two typologically similar languages, Greek and Chilean Spanish, considering adult monolingual and bilingual speakers of Greek as a heritage/minority language in Chile. The focus is on null and overt third-person subjects in …
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Sujeto pronombre expreso en el Español Colombiano de Filadelfia: variación y sintaxis unificada
El sujeto pronombre expreso (SPE) es una variable variacionista que se ha estudiado en múltiples comunidades hispanas y bilingues con español. (Ana M. Carvalho et al., 2015). Los estudios del SPE buscan entender la frecuencia relativa de pronombres expresos y nulos dependiendo de contextos …
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Effects of embedded pronouns on relative clause processing
… object relative clauses (ORC), as compared to subject relative clauses (SR), are widely attested across different languages, both in adults and in children. This SR-ORC asymmetry is reduced, or even eliminated, when the embedded constituent in the ORC is a pronoun, rather than a lexical noun …
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Development of pronominal expression in school-age children: Basque-Spanish contact
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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Quichua-Spanish language contact in Salcedo, Ecuador: revisiting media lengua syncretic language practices
… 39% of the basic vocabulary, and 50% of the subject pronouns in the Salcedo corpus were derived from Spanish. When compared to Muysken’s description of highlander Quichua in the 1970’s, Spanish loanwords have more than doubled in each category. The overall level of Spanish loanwords in …