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NYU Working Papers in Linguistics, Volume 2: Papers in Syntax, Spring 2009 39the Romanian data are particularly interesting in connection with overt controlled subjects insubjunctives.3.5 Modern Hebrew (thanks to Eytan Zweig, Tali Siloni, and especially Idan Landau andEdit Doron for data and discussion)1st and 2nd person unstressed pronouns are obligatorily null. 3rd person subjects can be nullwhen they have an antecedent and ideally are contained in a clause with future tense morphology(see Borer 1989, Landau 2004, and Holmberg 2005 for different analyses).3.5.1 RaisingThe LO readings are readily available with quantifiers in final position:(183) paxot anašim hetxilu la-avod šam.less people started-3pl-masc inf-work thereHI: `Less people are such that they started to work there’*LO: `It began to be the case that less people work overall’(184) rak me'at anašim hitxilu la-avod šam.only few people started-3pl-masc inf-work thereHI: `Only few people are such that they started to work there’*LO: `It began to be the case that only few people work overall’(185) hitxilu la-avod šam paxot anašim.started-3pl-masc inf-work there less people?HI: `Less people are such that they started to work there’LO: `It began to be the case that less people work overall’(186) hitxilu la-avod šam rak me'at anašim.started-3pl-masc to-work there only few peopleHI: `Only few people are such that they started to work there’LO: `It began to be the case that only few people work overall’3.5.2 Control and pronominal doublesAt first blush Hebrew appears to exhibit overt subjects in control complements as well. Controlexamples with sentence final pronouns are acceptable on the LO reading. (With initial pronounsthe LO reading requires a left dislocation intonation; I ignore this here.)(187) rak/gam anaxnu lo racinu la-avod.only/also we not wanted-1pl inf-workHI: `Only/also we did not want to work’