Some studies in the field of anaphora resolution have highlighted the fact that even speakers of two nullsubject languages may over-use overt subject pronouns in their null subject second language. Here, we analyze the overt subject pronouns produced in Italian by a group of near-native L2… read more
In previous work (Di Domenico, 2020), I have analyzed the narrative productions of a group of Italian native speakers, in order to investigate whether the core assumption of the Position of Antecedent Hypothesis, proposed by Carminati (2002) for the resolution of intra-sentential pro in Italian,… read more
I concentrate here on Adriana Belletti’s finding (2007, 2009a in particular) that different languages adopt different (but with a constrained variational pattern) strategies to answer the same question concerning the identification of the subject, and that answering strategies of the first language… read more