Null Subjects in Non-Pro-Drop Languages: The Lens on French

• Published in: Languages (Basel) Vol. 9; no. 12; p. 363
• Main Authors: Frascarelli, Mara, Carella, Giorgio
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.12.2024
• Subjects: Analysis; argument roles; Colloquial language; Comparative linguistics; Contrastive analysis; Corpus analysis; Diachronic analysis; discourse categories; Expletives; French language; Grammar, Comparative and general; Grammatical subject; Italian language; Language; Morphology; Morphosyntax; null subject; Parts of speech; Phi features; Pro drop parameter; Semantics; Syntactic movement; Tense; Translations; Italy

The contrast between languages such as Italian that allow subjects of tensed sentences to be null (i.e., pro-drop languages) and those like French that do not (i.e., non-pro-drop languages) is a classic issue for comparative syntactic research. Nevertheless, while several studies have been dedicated...