Subject ellipsis in Russian and Polish.
Polish and Russian are partial pro-drop languages with different patterns of subject realization: whereas pronominal subjects are more commonly elided in Polish, they are more commonly overt in Russian. This suggests an approach to modeling ellipsis that begins with the parameter baseline subject re...
| Publicado en: | Studia Linguistica Vol. 63; no. 1; pp. 98 - 133 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Apr2009
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