Overt pronouns in null subject languages: an experimental investigation of Kashubian, Polish, and Silesian.
Interpretive differences between overt subject pronouns relative to null subject pronouns are commonly considered a defining property of Consistent Null Subject Languages (CNSLs), in contradistinction to Partial Null Subject Languages (PNSLs). In this article, we present the results of two experimen...
| Publicado en: | Linguistics Vol. 64; no. 1; pp. 31 - 66 |
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De Gruyter
Jan2026
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