The Interpretation of Null Subjects in a Radical Pro-drop Language: Topic Chains and Discourse-semantic Requirements in Chinese
Based on original data collected through an online experiment, evidence is provided in this paper that the interpretation of null subjects in a radical pro-drop language like Chinese relies on the topic criterion proposed for consistent and partial pro-drop languages (Frascarelli 2007 and Frascarell...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2019-06-01
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| Series: | Studies in Chinese Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/scl-2019-0001 |