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The Santa (or Dongxiang) nationality is one of the fifty-five officially recognized national minorities of the People's Republic of China. Numbering over 370,000 according to the 1992 census (Grimes 1992), the Santa live in southern Gansu Province in the arid and mountainous Don…

This dissertation investigates the relation between the functional heads TP and AgrP and the use of overt and covert subjects across languages. This relation is first accounted for in Modern Hebrew, where both subject options are attested in different tense-person contexts. In a…