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Knut Tarald Taraldsen (born 23 March 1948, in
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) is a Norwegian linguist working in
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as a senior researcher at the Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics (CASTL).Knut Tarald Taraldsen
in
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His work mostly concerns syntactic theory. He did early, ground-breaking work on
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s (roughly at the same time as
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), and is also responsible for Taraldsen's generalization concerning the cross-linguistic correlation between
null subjects 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. In the principles and parameters framework, the null subje ...
and subject-verb agreement.


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