Implications from aphasia for the syntax of null-subject sentences: underlying subject slots in Bulgarian.
Evidence for the existence of an underlying sentence-initial subject slot for Bulgarian null-subject personal constructions can be found in two aberrant tendencies by a Bulgarian patient with aphasia. In response to test sentences consisting of personal constructions that contained an object pronominal clitic and no lexical subject, the patient tended either to insert a superfluous sentence-initial pronominal subject, or to place the object pronominal clitic left-adjacent to the verb, in the position that it would have occupied had a sentence-initial overt subject been present.
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Department of Russian, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
D000368:Aged; D001037:Aphasia / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology*; D002031:Bulgaria; D002561:Cerebrovascular Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D013060:Speech; D013067:Speech Perception