This article examines the syntax of subject clitics in northern Italian dialects. Statistical analysis is performed on a sample 350 dialects to show that co-variation between syntactic variables significant. The under examination are occurrence with non-dislocated subjects (e.g., wh element who); nonthematic predicates weather verbs); and any person. Syntactic turn linked verbal agreement; abov...

We discuss and analyze two subject agreement markers in Logooli (Bantu, Kenya). We show that e(class 9 subject agreement) and ga(class 6 subject agreement) give rise to a variety of apparently evidential or modal meanings when they occur in constructions translated with “expletive” subjects. We propose a treatment of the Logooli data following Matthewson, Rullmann & Davis’s (2007) and Rullmann,...

The article argues that the EPP should be eliminated. It is shown that in a number of constructions the EPP does not hold at all. Where it does appear to hold, its effects follow from independent mechanisms of the grammar. EPP effects concerning the final landing site of A-movement follow from Case theory. Intermediate [Spec,IP]s are filled as a result of the requirement of successive cyclicity...

We present the LIMSI’s cross-lingual pronoun prediction system for the WMT 2016 shared task. We use high-level linguistic features with explicit coreference resolution and expletive detection and rely on dependency annotations and a morphological lexicon. We show that our few, carefully chosen features perform significantly better than several language model baselines and competitively compared...