(In)felicitous use of subjects in Greek and Spanish in monolingual and contact settings

This paper focuses on subject distribution in Greek and Chilean Spanish, both null languages, as evidenced the oral production of monolingual bilingual speakers. Narratives elicited from 40 monolinguals 76 bilinguals different types, namely, first- generation immigrants, heritage speakers, L2 were analysed quantitatively qualitatively to explore potential differences expressing reference between groups contact settings. The qualitative analysis contexts topic continuity shift showed no overextension scope overt pronoun expected be found performance according Interface Hypothesis (Sorace 2011; 2012) previous research. findings also show that redundancy lexical subjects observed mostly involved felicitous (pragmatically appropriate) constructions. Moreover, while bilinguals, cases ambiguity this discourse context.