On the Extended Projection Principle and null expletive subjects

Picallo, M. Carme

doi:10.1515/prbs.1998.10.2.219

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“…Catalan and Italian), the distribution of null/overt subjects are well documented, and it is generally accepted that in these languages overt subjects necessarily have a switch-reference or focalized quality (e.g. Fernández-Soriano 1993, Picallo 1998, Rigau 1988, Rizzi 1997. For example, overt subject pronouns (or lexical subjects) are required to remove referential ambiguity when new referents are introduced into the discourse, as seen by comparing (1) with (2).…”

Section: The Syntax-pragmatics Interface and Pronominal Subject Distrmentioning

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How Pragmatically Odd! Interface Delays and Pronominal Subject Distribution in L2 Spanish

Rothman

2008

Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics

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Sorace (2000Sorace ( , 2005 has claimed that while L2 learners can easily acquire properties of L2 narrow syntax they have significant difficulty with regard to interpretation and the discourse distribution of related properties, resulting in so-called residual optionality. However, there is no consensus as to what this difficulty indicates. Is it related to an insurmountable grammatical representational deficit (in the sense of representation deficit approaches; e.g. Beck 1998, Franceschina 2001, Hawkins 2005, is it due to cross-linguistic interference, or is it just a delay due to a greater complexity involved in the acquisition of interface-conditioned properties? In this article, I explore the L2 distribution of null and overt subject pronouns of Englishspeaking learners of L2 Spanish. While intermediate learners clearly have knowledge of the syntax of Spanish null subjects, they do not have target-like pragmatic knowledge of their distribution with overt subjects. The present data demonstrate, however, that this difficulty is overcome at highly advanced stages of L2 development, thus suggesting that properties at the syntax-pragmatics interface are not destined for inevitable fossilization.

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Section: The Syntax-pragmatics Interface and Pronominal Subject Distrmentioning

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How Pragmatically Odd! Interface Delays and Pronominal Subject Distribution in L2 Spanish

Rothman

2008

Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics

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“…It has been argued recently that information structure notions, such as topic and focus, appear to play a crucial role in the position of S in free-order languages, with preverbal Ss usually analysed as topics or given information, and postverbal Ss as (presentational/informational) focus or new information (see, among others, Vallduví 1990, Fernández-Soriano 1993, Liceras et al 1994, Picallo 1998, Zubizarreta 1998, Belletti 2001, 2004b, Domínguez 2004, Lozano 2006 Empirical studies on Spanish native speakers' acceptability preferences show, however, that verb choice may determine whether the answer to questions like (19) may contain either a preverbal or a postverbal S. In particular, preverbal Ss are favoured for unergative Vs and postverbal Ss in unaccusative contexts (Hertel 2003, Lozano 2003, 2006) (see also Pinto 1997 for similar observations for Italian), as in (20). (20) a. i. Juan ha hablado.…”

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“…4) has attributed the presence of there in constructions like (8c) (and, presumably, pro expl ) with the satisfaction of the Extended Projection Principle (EPP), by which clauses must have Ss (see Chomsky 1981). There are, however, proposals which seek to eliminate null expletives from the theory (for instance Picallo 1998 andYusa 2002).…”

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Postverbal subjects at the interfaces in Spanish and Italian learners of L2 English: a corpus analysis

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Mendikoetxea²

2008

Linking Up Contrastive and Learner Corpus Research

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“…13 ß Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 1998 12 Which I essentially repeat from Pollock (1986Pollock ( , 1997a. Many researchers have recently independently arrived at similar views, for example Taraldsen (1992), Alexiadou & Anagnostopoulou (1996), Picallo (1997), Barbosa (1997), and Ordonez (1997), among others. Jelinek (1984) already claimed that in, say, hablas in Spanish there are no pleonastic subjects, no nominal adjuncts to the subject pronominal inflection, in effect no ''pro-drop,'' a view most traditional grammarians also adopted without discussion.…”

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“…See fn. 3, Alexiadou & Anagnostopoulou (1996), and Picallo (1997) for some proposals to this effect.…”

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On the Syntax of Subnominal Clitics: Cliticization and Ellipsis

Pollock

1998

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This article uses the properties of the French subnominal clitic en as a probe to explore various issues in current syntactic theory. Section 2 presents some of its chief properties; section 3 deals with the way they relate to the VP-internal hypothesis for subjects; section 4 discusses the intricate ways in which the null subject parameter interacts with the syntax of en/ne in French and Italian; section 5 analyzes the contrast between ''adnominal en'' -as in J'en ai lu le premier chapitre (I en-have read the first chapter) -and ''quantitative en'' -as in J'en ai lu trois (I en-have read three) -with respect to preverbal subjects, and explores the respective properties of ''encliticization'' and nominal ellipses in French and English. It will be shown that a natural extension of Kayne's (1994:8.6) analysis of de to en sheds light on mysterious properties of en. From a more theoretical perspective, the article can be read as a fresh attempt to vindicate the view that the parallelism between the internal structures of IP and DP is closer than traditionally believed.

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On the Extended Projection Principle and null expletive subjects

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How Pragmatically Odd! Interface Delays and Pronominal Subject Distribution in L2 Spanish

How Pragmatically Odd! Interface Delays and Pronominal Subject Distribution in L2 Spanish

Postverbal subjects at the interfaces in Spanish and Italian learners of L2 English: a corpus analysis

On the Syntax of Subnominal Clitics: Cliticization and Ellipsis

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