Discourse participants in interaction: Cross-linguistic perspectives on subject expression and ellipsis

Englebretson, Robert; Helasvuo, Marja-Liisa

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2014.01.005

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“…Following the extensive study of pro‐drop in inflectional ‘canonical NSL’, there is an increasing number of corpus‐based studies on null subjects in non‐inflectional languages investigating the structural conditions of subject expression (Englebretson & Helasuvo on crosslinguistic phenomena; Wagner and Torres Cacoullos & Travis on US English; Meyerhoff on Bislama; Jia & Bayley and Li et al. on Mandarin Chinese).…”

Section: Null Subjects In Singaporean and Hong Kong Englishmentioning

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Pronoun deletion in Hong Kong English and Colloquial Singaporean English

Schröter

Kortmann

2016

World Englishes

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The question how substrate features and extralinguistic conditions interact in shaping contact varieties is an ongoing debate in the study of world Englishes. The present study tries to describe substrate influence by identifying an areally marked morphosyntactic feature, subject pronoun deletion, and comparing its occurrence and structural conditioning in two closely related varieties of English in Southeast Asia. Our results show that even in the typologically similar linguistic habitats of Hong Kong and Singapore, the different degrees of nativisation are reflected in the frequency and distribution of null subjects in the two relevant local varieties.

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Pronoun deletion in Hong Kong English and Colloquial Singaporean English

Schröter

Kortmann

2016

World Englishes

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Negative scope, temporality, fixedness, and right- and left-branching

Ono

Thompson

2017

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‘Negative scope’ concerns what it is that is negated in an utterance with a negative morpheme. With English and Japanese conversational data, we show that for an English speaker, calculating negative scope requires that recipients incrementally keep track of all the material in the clause thatfollowsthe negative morpheme, which comes early in the clause. In contrast, the negative morpheme comes late in the clause in Japanese; thus it would seem that recipients need to hold in memory all the material in the clauseprecedingthe negative until the negative morpheme is produced. Several features of Japanese grammar, however, suggest that this characterization is not accurate. We argue that prosody, grammar, cognition, processing, and fixedness all interact with the grammar of clause organization to afford quite different real-time processing strategies for calculating the assignment of negative scope in languages with different ‘word order’ norms.

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Discourse participants in interaction: Cross-linguistic perspectives on subject expression and ellipsis

Cited by 2 publications

References 9 publications

Pronoun deletion in Hong Kong English and Colloquial Singaporean English

Pronoun deletion in Hong Kong English and Colloquial Singaporean English

Negative scope, temporality, fixedness, and right- and left-branching

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