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Pronominal and Expletive Subjects in Germanic
"The syntax of Germanic subject pronouns is only minimally different from nominal subjects. Germanic has to a large extent dispensed with null subjects, leading to a tendency to also use pronouns to refer to highly accessible subjects and the frequent use of expletive subjects..." – By Gunther De Vogelaer
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Negative Polarity Items in Chinese
"Negative polarity items (NPIs) are well known for their limited distribution, that is, their negation-implicating contexts, the phenomenon of which has attracted much attention in generative linguistics since Klima’s seminal work..." – By Bo Xue and Haihua Pan
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