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Null Subject Change

Null Subject Change is a syntactic change representing the historical shift in a language’s grammar whereby the licensing of null (unexpressed) subjects in declarative clauses is either gained or lost, distinguishing it from other parametric changes by its specific reconfiguration of the pro-drop parameter in relation to agreement morphology, discourse features, and clause structure.

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Citations

45

Authors

20

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

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Variants

Pro-drop Change

Parents

Publications

30

On the grammatical basis of null subjects in child language

Nina Hyams, Kenneth Wexler · Linguistic Inquiry · 1993 · 291 citations

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Past participle agreement in Abruzzese: split auxiliary selection and the null-subject parameter

Roberta D’Alessandro, Ian Roberts · Natural Language & Linguistic Theory · 2010 · 234 citations · Full text

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Unspeakable sentences

Liliane Haegeman · Linguistic Variation · 2017 · 195 citations

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Null Subject Versus Null Object: Some Evidence From the Acquisition of Chinese and English

Qi Wang, Diane Lillo‐Martin, Catherine T. Best et al. · Language Acquisition · 1992 · 185 citations

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Two kinds of subject<i>pro</i>

Studia Linguistica · 2009 · 149 citations · Full text

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Authors

45

  1. MI
    Michael Iverson

    University of Iowa, United States

    2 publications · 56 citations

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  2. JR
    Jason Rothman

    UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway

    2 publications · 56 citations

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  3. DH
    David Håkansson

    Uppsala University, Sweden

    1 publications · 18 citations

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  4. HG
    Helen Goodluck

    University of York, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 23 citations

    1

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  5. IL
    Idan Landau

    Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

    1 publications · 14 citations

    1

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Institutions

20

  1. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    284 citations

  2. Ghent University

    Ghent, Belgium

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    195 citations

  3. Boğaziçi University

    Istanbul, Türkiye

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    76 citations

  4. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

    Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    24 citations

  5. Utrecht University

    Utrecht, The Netherlands

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    24 citations

  6. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

    Beersheba, Israel

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    14 citations

  7. University of Groningen

    Groningen, The Netherlands

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    76 citations

  8. Universidade de São Paulo

    São Paulo, Brazil

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    19 citations

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Venues

  1. Linguistic Inquiry

    2 publications · 305 citations

    2

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  2. Journal of Portuguese Linguistics

    2 publications · 31 citations

    2

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  3. Language Acquisition

    2 publications · 214 citations

    2

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  4. Nordic Journal of Linguistics

    NJL · 1 publications · 25 citations

    1

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  5. Journal of Historical Linguistics

    1 publications · 18 citations

    1

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