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Register-specific subject omission in English and French and the syntax of coordination

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2021
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Haegeman, L., & Stark, E. (2021). Register-specific subject omission in English and French and the syntax of coordination. In S. Wolfe & C. Meklenborg Salvensen (Eds.), Continuity and Variation in Germanic and Romance (pp. 15–43). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198841166.003.0002

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In both English and French, as such non-pro drop languages, finite clause subjects can be omitted in second-conjunct subject ellipsis in the core grammar and as a result of register-specific subject omission (as in diary style writing). The parallelisms between second-conjunct ellipsis present and register-specific subject omission present a challenge for accounts viewing register-specific subject omission as a register-related grammatical property. This chapter shows that the two phenomena cannot be assimilated. Based on patterns wit

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  • Wolfe, Sam
  • Meklenborg Salvensen, Christine

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Continuity and Variation in Germanic and Romance

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Oxford

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15

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43

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English

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Haegeman, L., & Stark, E. (2021). Register-specific subject omission in English and French and the syntax of coordination. In S. Wolfe & C. Meklenborg Salvensen (Eds.), Continuity and Variation in Germanic and Romance (pp. 15–43). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198841166.003.0002

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