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Null Subject Phenomena

Null Subject Phenomena is a syntactic property of certain natural languages, particularly evident in Spanish, whereby the subject pronoun may be omitted from a clause without loss of grammaticality or clarity, as the subject's referent is recoverable from verbal inflectional morphology.

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2017–2026

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Variants

Pro-drop Phenomena

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Publications

171

Anaphora resolution in near-native speakers of Italian

Antonella Sorace, Francesca Filiaci · Second language Research · 2006 · 867 citations · Full text

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Is There a Little Pro? Evidence from Finnish

Anders Holmberg · Linguistic Inquiry · 2005 · 568 citations

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Crosslinguistic influence at the syntax–pragmatics interface: Subjects and objects in English–Italian bilingual and monolingual acquisition

Ludovica Serratrice, Antonella Sorace, Sandra Paoli · Bilingualism Language and Cognition · 2004 · 473 citations

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Conditions on Argument Drop

Halldór Ármann Sigurðsson · Linguistic Inquiry · 2011 · 312 citations · Full text

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On the grammatical basis of null subjects in child language

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

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Authors

216

  1. PB
    Pilar Barbosa

    University of Minho, Portugal

    4 publications · 298 citations

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  2. FF
    Francesca Filiaci

    University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    4 publications · 1.1K citations

    4

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  3. JR
    Jason Rothman

    UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway

    4 publications · 349 citations

    4

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  4. AS
    Antonella Sorace

    University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    4 publications · 1.6K citations

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  5. RC
    Richard Cameron

    University of Illinois Chicago, United States

    3 publications · 431 citations

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Institutions

134

  1. University of Manchester

    Manchester, United Kingdom

    7 h-index

    8 publications

    1.2K citations

  2. University of Minho

    Braga, Portugal

    5 h-index

    6 publications

    347 citations

  3. Pennsylvania State University

    State College, United States

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    279 citations

  4. Lund University

    Lund, Sweden

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    522 citations

  5. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    153 citations

  6. Universitat Pompeu Fabra

    Barcelona, Spain

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    119 citations

  7. Universidade de São Paulo

    São Paulo, Brazil

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    76 citations

  8. Goethe University Frankfurt

    Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    97 citations

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Venues

  1. Second language Research

    9 publications · 1.5K citations

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  2. Linguistic Inquiry

    9 publications · 1.4K citations

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  3. Language Acquisition

    7 publications · 549 citations

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  4. Language Variation and Change

    7 publications · 715 citations

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  5. Syntax

    6 publications · 381 citations

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