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Alexandra Fiéis, Ana Madeira and Joana Teixeira, researchers at LiFE group of NOVA CLUNL, sign the article “Microvariation in the resolution of pronominal subjects in Romance: European Portuguese vs. Italian” within the last issue of the journal Isogloss.

In this article, the researchers share their study on how adult native speakers of two null subject Romance languages, European Portuguese (EP) and Italian, interpret null and overt pronominal subjects in intrasentential contexts. Participants were 30 speakers of EP and 30 of Italian. Each language group was administered two multiple-choice tasks (speeded and untimed), which crossed the following variables: ‘animacy of the matrix object’ ([+ human] vs. [- human]) and ‘type of pronominal embedded subject’ (overt vs. null).

The paper is available in Open Access at the following link:
https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.220

• Fiéis, Alexandra; Madeira, Ana; Teixeira, Joana (2022). Microvariation in the resolution of pronominal subjects in Romance: European Portuguese vs. Italian. Isogloss, 8(5) [special issue: RLLT19, Selected papers from Going Romance Amsterdam], pp.1-20. ISSN 2385-4138. Available at: https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/isogloss.220