Results suggest that the grammatical features under investigation can be conceived as the by-product of advanced second language acquisition processes, and do not necessarily imply any previous de creolization phase for ABS.
All rights reserved. Corr, Alice. Wide-focus subject-verb inversion in Ibero-Romance: A locative account. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 1 1 : This paper explores the hypothesis that wide-focus subject-verb inversion in Ibero-Romance is a type of locative inversion, involving a null locative argument.
Ibero-Romance displays fine-grained, systematic variation determined by verbal Ibero-Romance displays fine-grained, systematic variation determined by verbal class and variety, offering evidence that Ibero-Romance neutral word order is SVO, rather than VSO as claimed by some null-subject accounts.
The locative element, available unequally across Ibero-Romance, can surface in different positions in the left periphery, yielding the variation encountered. Ejemplos: 1. To this end, we analyze longitudinal corpus data from four bilinguals attesting the acquisition of To this end, we analyze longitudinal corpus data from four bilinguals attesting the acquisition of subjecthood null versus overt; preverbal versus postverbal and the pragmatic adequacy of early null and overt subjects in a null-subject language i.
Our results indicate that CLI barely affects the development of subjects in the null-subject language at the initial stages, namely at the outset of null and overt subjects, and in turn argue in favor of the Separate Development Hypothesis.
Our bilingual cohort patterns with their Spanish-acquiring monolingual peer in that both groups display similar proportions of null subjects as well as acquisitional trajectories of null and overt subjects at the early stages of acquisition. Much like monolinguals, bilinguals begin to produce preverbal and postverbal subjects concurrently. The bilingual children and the monolingual child of this study actually produce extremely high rates of pragmatically appropriate covert subjects as well as overt subjects, which are for the most part target-like from the start, thus suggesting the absence of CLI effects.
It has been pointed out in the literature that BP shows a reduction in the occurrence of null pronouns in subject position, differing in this respect from EP. However, like BP but unlike Ep, Portuguese fills the first person singular and plural in the subject position more than in the other persons.
Corr, A. This presentation summarises the results of my recent study into the licensing of wide-focus subject- verb inversion in Ibero-Romance namely, Asturian, European and Brazilian Portuguese, and Peninsular, Mexican and Rioplatense Spanish , This presentation summarises the results of my recent study into the licensing of wide-focus subject- verb inversion in Ibero-Romance namely, Asturian, European and Brazilian Portuguese, and Peninsular, Mexican and Rioplatense Spanish , a property which has been linked to the null subject parameter Chomsky , Rizzi The empirical data surveyed paints a more complex picture of such constructions at the microparametric level than previous accounts assume, displaying fine- grained and systematic variation according to variety and according to verb class.
Further, it offers strong evidence that the neutral word order of these varieties is SVO, rather than VSO as has often been claimed in the literature. As such, an approach to null subjects of the Alexiadou and Anagnostopoulou and Barbosa type, involving a parameterized EPP, appears to make the wrong predictions for Ibero-Romance, whereas the data supports the approach to null subjects pursued in Holmberg , Sheehan and Roberts This locative element is available unequally across Ibero-Romance and can surface in different positions in the higher portion of the sentential architecture, leading to the microparametric variation encountered.
Instead, I argue the construction is a consequence of grammatically-encoded deictic features which correlate with the semantic properties of the verbs involved in such cases of inversion. The loss of referential null subjects in Russian: what subordinate clauses can tell us.
As well known, Old Russian was a null subject language. The loss of referential null subjects can be observed in texts during the history of Russian. A recent corpus study has shown that the rate at which referential null subjects A recent corpus study has shown that the rate at which referential null subjects decrease is much faster in subordinate than in main clauses.
Notably, a higher frequency of overt subjects in subordinate clauses has also been detected in Early Germanic languages in the process of losing null referential subjects.
This finding challenges various assumptions concerning the conservative status of subordinate vs. In our paper, we try to understand the reasons for the observed development, also in the light of ongoing changes in the system of subordination that were taking place in Russian at the same time.
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