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Null-subject language

In linguistic typology, a null-subject language is a language whose grammar permits an independent clause to lack an explicit subject; such a clause is then said to have a null subject.

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Characterization

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Impersonal constructions

Null subjects in non-null-subject languages

Auxiliary languages

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Null-subject language

Nodes90
Edges89
Triples37
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.022222
Components1

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Null-subject language

Top relations

related to Characterization · 11
Null-subject language → Bitte, English, French, German, Italian, Languages, Not, Similarly, Spanish, Subjects, These
related to Null subjects in non-null-subject languages · 9
Null-subject language → English, French, German, Germanic, In, Other, Romance, Russian, Spanish
related to Japanese · 3
Null-subject language → For, In Japanese, Japanese
related to The imperative form · 3
Null-subject language → An, English, Even
is a · 1
Null-subject language → language whose grammar permits an independent clause to lack an explicit subject
related to Arabic · 1
Null-subject language → Arabic
related to Hebrew · 1
Null-subject language → Hebrew

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Important terminology

subject languages pronoun null-subject verb sentence english null pro-drop came saw conquered example portuguese emphasis french also sentences spanish language

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Null-subject languageis alanguage whose grammar permits an independent clause to lack an explicit subject0.90text
Hindustaniinstance ofSouth Asian languages0.80text
in generalinstance ofSouth Asian languages0.80text
have the ability to pro-drop anyinstance ofSouth Asian languages0.80text
all argumentsinstance ofSouth Asian languages0.80text
Englishinstance ofwhereas many non-pro-drop languages0.80text
French must fill in the syntactic gap by inserting a dummy pronouninstance ofwhereas many non-pro-drop languages0.80text
Englishinstance ofThe imperative formEven in such non-null-subject languages0.80text
it is standard for clauses in the imperative mood to lack explicit subjectsinstance ofThe imperative formEven in such non-null-subject languages0.80text
Null-subject languagerelated to ArabicArabic0.60section
Null-subject languagerelated to CharacterizationLanguages0.60section
Null-subject languagerelated to CharacterizationEnglish0.60section

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