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On Partial Null Subject languages: Why pro-drop in Brazilian Portuguese and Russian became similar but not identical
(Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, 2022-12-01)
In this paper, I claim that a parametric view on change in pro-drop does not contradict the fact that not all the Partial Null Subject (PNS) languages display identical properties. I show that the contingent nature of ...
Defective pronouns in the history of Russian: null subjects and object clitics
(University of Nova Gorica, 2023-12-24)
In this paper, I present a unified account for the change in referential null subjects and accusative clitics in Russian. Clitics and null subjects are minimal defective pronouns. In Old Russian, long verb movement was the ...
Simplifying grammatical gender in inflectional languages: Odessa Russian and beyond
(De Gruyter, 2022-06-09)
This work aims to contribute to the analysis of the morphosyntactic processes of gender assignment and gender agreement in inflectional languages, through the study of gender variation in Russian. We will focus on the data ...
Referential null subjects in Russian: A synchronic and diachronic overview
(De Gruyter, 2022-01-31)
In this chapter, I will offer an overview of null subjects (NSs) with individual reference interpretation in the history of Russian. Specifically, I will relate the current use of NSs in root contexts and NSs in syntactically ...