Null Subjects in the Romance Languages

João Costa

doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.636

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Null Subjects in the Romance Languages

João CostaJoão CostaNOVA University Lisbon

https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199384655.013.636
Published online: 18 June 2024

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Some Romance languages have null subjects, that is, these languages have the capacity of leaving the subject of the sentence unexpressed. The property of having null subjects is not uniform across Romance. Different Romance languages have different types of null subjects, which has an impact on their distribution and interpretation.

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date: 18 September 2024

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Null Subjects in the Romance Languages

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