Patrick Murphy

List of John Benjamins publications in which Patrick Murphy is involved.

Article

Massam, Diane, Kazuya Bamba and Patrick Murphy 2017 Obligatorily null pronouns in the instructional register and beyond Register Variation and Syntactic Theory, Massam, Diane and Tim Stowell (eds.), pp. 272–291 | Article

English is not canonically considered a pro-drop language. Despite this, it does allow null pronouns, although less freely than traditional pro-drop languages like Italian and Japanese. The focus of this paper is the instructional register (characteristic of recipes) where we claim that object… read more