null expletive pronoun: a minimalist approach‎

Automatic Recognition of French Expletive Pronoun Occurrences

We present a tool, called ILIMP, which takes as input a raw text in French and produces as output the same text in which every occurrence of the pronoun il is tagged either with tag [ANA] for anaphoric or [IMP] for impersonal or expletive. This tool is therefore designed to distinguish between the anaphoric occurrences of il, for which an anaphora resolution system has to look for an antecedent...

The Loss of Old English Null Expletive ‘it’

Null pronoun variation in Mandarin Chinese

Estimation : a Minimalist Approach

Managing telecommunication networks involves collecting and analyzing large amounts of statistical data. The standard approach to estimating quantiles involves capturing all the relevant data (what may require significant storage/processing capacities), and performing an off-line analysis (what may delay management actions). It is often essential to estimate quantiles as the data are collected,...

A minimalist approach to null subjects and objects in second language acquisition

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passive structure in persian: a minimalist approach

whether or not there is a verbal passive construction in persian has been ‎highly controversial. traditional grammarians and most linguists have ‎argued that there is a structural passive construction in persian, similar to ‎that observed in english. within the framework of the minimalist ‎program, but more in the spirit of emonds’s (2006) division of analytic ‎passives into verbal and adjectiv...