12 Null subjects in Selkup and Nganasan

What is it about?

The aim of this chapter is to provide an inventory of null subjects in Selkup and Nganasan.1 On the basis of newly assembled corpus data (Brykina et al. 2018a, 2018b; Budzisch et al. 2019; see also Section 2.1 herein), we will discuss the con-ditions under which null subjects are licensed. We will also focus on the arbitrary readings of 3pl and 3sg (null and overt) pronominals in Selkup and Nganasan, with the ultimate goal of providing evidence that they are neither clearly consist-ent Null Subject Languages nor clearly partial Null Subject Languages.

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