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On Null-Subject Languages and the Overt Pronoun Constraint: A Comparison of English, Mandarin and Japanese
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Yi-ching Su; Ho-Yun Hsieh; Devin Tankersley; Chia-Hsing Chen – Second Language Research, 2025
This study reports on findings from two experiments investigating the interpretive patterns of overt pronouns in an embedded subject position with three types of matrix subjects (i.e. a referential NP, a quantified NP, or a "wh"-phrase) in Mandarin, English, and Japanese. According to the Overt Pronoun Constraint (OPC), overt pronouns in…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, English, Japanese, Form Classes (Languages)