Generative linguistics and acquisition : studies in honor of Nina M. Hyams / edited by Misha Becker, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ; John Grinstead, the Ohio State University, Columbus ; Jason Rothman, University of Florida, Gainesville.
This paper proposes a new theory of why null-subjects of finite verbs are produced by young children developing a non-null-subject language. We first show that one of the extant theories, Topic-Drop, isn't supported. Modifying ideas proposed in Rizzi (2006), we assume that finite null-subjects...
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