Acquisition of object clitics in child Polish: Evidence for three developmental stages

Tryzna, Marta Maria

doi:10.1016/j.lingua.2014.10.009

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“…European Portuguese (see Cardinaletti 1990), to drop the objects of verbs in Polish, not only in the 3 rd person but also in some contexts in the 1 st and the 2 nd . Consider the following examples 21and 22 In most contexts null objects freely alternate with pronouns in Polish (Kowaluk 1999;Tryzna 2015;Mykhaylyk & Sopata 2016;Sopata 2016). Whenever the cognitive status of the referent is highly activated in the speaker's mind, by means of prior discourse or high saliency in the pragmatic context, the object may be expressed by a null.…”

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On the C/edge linking mechanism. Evidence from Polish

Sopata

2017

Lingua Posnaniensis

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The main aim of the paper is to examine Polish data from the perspective of Sigurðsson’s (2011, 2014) theory of C/edge linking. The crucial point of the theory lies in the hypothesis that phases are equipped with silent edge features which enable narrow syntax to link to context. All definite arguments, overt as well as null arguments, must be successfully C/edge linked, e.g. they have to match at least one feature in the broad C-domain. The present study focuses on utterances in Polish with direct object expressed as pronoun or null.The account proves successful in explaining some distributional patterns of null vs. pronoun objects in Polish. The Polish data investigated in this study indicates that the theory of silent edge linkers providing a communication channel for syntax and context is a step towards understanding the relation between syntax and pragmatics better.

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