Null Subjects in Andalusian Spanish: The Role of Context in Marking Person.
The goal of this study is to show how contextual information, in the form of same reference and knowledge, accounts for the vast majority of the 3096 null subjects in a sample of Andalusian Spanish from Puente Genil, a town of 30,000 people located 42 miles south of Córdoba. The specific proposal is...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of the Humanities Vol. 9; no. 10; pp. 49 - 62 |
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Common Ground Research Networks
2012
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