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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
parasitic gap Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives (at least some of the time) on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The ent ...
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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