The absence or presence of the subject personal pronoun is a linguistic phenomenon typical pro-drop languages. This paper initiates series studies that try to find and social determinants affect occurrence this in variety Spanish spoken Malaga (Spain). We show partial results concerning speakers with low educational level obtained from study first corpus Project for Sociolinguistic Study Spain ...

While we agree that the base-generated phonologically null nominal known as PRO has Case, we dispute the recent contention of Chomsky & Lasnik (1995) and Martin(2001) that there is a special Null Case, assigned in English by certain instances of infinitival to. We show that, contrary to Martin’s claims, there is no consistent distinction between instances of to that license PRO, and instances o...

The current paper proposes a novel approach to Spanish zero pronoun resolution in the context of Spanish to Korean Machine Translation (MT). Spanish is one of the well-known 'pro-drop' languages so that especially a subject pronoun is often omitted, if it can be inferred from the linguistic as well as nonlinguistic context. In Spanish to Korean MT the omitted subject doesn't need to be restored...

In a language that allows null pronouns, why would a speaker bother to use an overt pronoun at all? A traditional answer is that an overt pronoun contains agreement information necessary for the identification of its antecedent. But this cannot possibly be the answer in languages like Turkish, which has subject-verb agreement, but no gender; since the verb already indicates the person and numbe...

In this paper we apply MOSAIC (Model of Syntax Acquisition in Children) to the simulation of the developmental patterning of children's Optional Infinitive (OI) errors in four languages: English, Dutch, German and Spanish. MOSAIC, which has already simulated this phenomenon in Dutch and English, now implements a learning mechanism that better reflects the theoretical assumptions underlying it, ...

In this study, we apply MOSAIC (model of syntax acquisition in children) to the simulation of the developmental patterning of children's optional infinitive (OI) errors in 4 languages: English, Dutch, German, and Spanish. MOSAIC, which has already simulated this phenomenon in Dutch and English, now implements a learning mechanism that better reflects the theoretical assumptions underlying it, a...

This paper examines the morphological interaction of possessor agreement and number possessed noun in Turkish Sakha, two distantly related Turkic languages. Of particular focus are third-person posses- sors, where both languages can use regular nominal plural suffix -LAr to index 3PL possessors, (similar many languages) do not allow instances sequence, resulting a three-way ambiguity, e.g. Sakh...