Abstract South-Western Ukrainian dialects have retained the option of auxiliary clitics in formation past tense. At same time, they past-tense forms without as Northern dialects, and Standard based on South-Eastern dialects. A sample corpus study suggests that also shows a higher frequency subject pro -drop than Ukrainian. The pattern presents precise mirror image two features ‘Borderland’ Poli...

Abstract In Italian, null pronouns are typically interpreted toward antecedents in a prominent syntactic position, whereas overt prefer lower positions. Interpretation preferences Spanish less clear. While comprehension and production have never been systematically compared Italian Spanish, here we look at the for overt- null-subject two languages using same materials. Using an offline task wit...

It has often been observed that children go through a stage in their language development where they omit subjects. This occurs in children learning both pro-drop and non-pro-drop languages and poses questions for a traditional parameter-based theory of language acquisition. In this paper I give an overview of some of the existing accounts of this phenomenon, considering the patterns that emerg...

The present study explores the acceptability of postverbal subjects by intermediate and advanced L2 English learners with L1 Macedonian, a pro-drop Slavic language rich verbal morphology. two languages differ regarding distribution subject-verb inversion (SVI): in it is default pattern thetic sentences, but severely restricts SVI to specific contexts. To test hypothesis that Macedonian encounte...

A considerable amount of research in generative syntax over the last decade and a half has been based on the hypothesis that the settings of binary parameters, such as [± null subject], can exhaustively describe the full range of possible grammars of natural languages!. Indeed, the prime example used by Chomky (1981) is the so-called "null subject parameter", which was supposed to correlate a n...

Objectives: Persian is a pro-drop language with canonical Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) word order. This study investigates the acquisition of word order in Persian-speaking children. Methods: In the present study, participants were 60 Persian-speaking children (30 girls and 30 boys) with typically developing language skills, and aged between 30-47 months. The 30-minute language samples were audio...

Head-driven parser models predict that SOV languages are harder to process than SVO languages, since the parser has to hold both S and O until it reaches V, instead of just S as in an SVO language. However, since no reading time differences have been attested between SOV and SVO languages, we hypothesize that either these models are wrong or SOV languages have strategies to compensate for the l...

 Korean is one of the well-known „pro-drop‟ languages. When translating Korean zero object into languages in which objects have to be overtly expressed, the resolution of zero object is crucial. This paper proposes a machine learning method to resolve Korean zero object. We proposed 8 linguistically motivated features for ML (Machine Learning). Our approach has been implemented with WEKA 3.6.1...