The Syntactic Recoverability of Null Arguments
1st Edition
Published on 14. May 2014
228 pages
978-0-7735-6229-5 (ISBN)
Description
Recent work in the generative framework of grammar has avoided explicit language-particular syntactic rules. This has had definite consequences for some theories of recoverability. In his solidly argued work, Yves Roberge considers the possibility that empty syntactic argument positions, where their content is recoverable in a very local sense, are a property of some natural languages: the null argument property.
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English
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Montreal, QC
United States
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Digital original
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9,05 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7735-6229-5 (9780773562295)
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Yves Roberge
The Syntactic Recoverability of Null Arguments
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03/1990
McGill-Queen's University Press
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 SYNTACTIC THEORY AND NULL ARGUMENTS
- 1.0. Introduction
- 1.1. Variation and Learnability
- 1.1.1. The Government and Binding Framework
- 1.2. Null Arguments
- 1.2.1. Previous Analyses
- 1.2.2. Zero-Topic Languages
- 1.2.3. A Theory of pro
- 1.3. On Empty Categories
- 1.4. Summary
- 2 NULL ARGUMENTS IN ROMANCE LANGUAGES
- 2.0. Introduction
- 2.1. A Generalization
- 2.2. Pro and Clitics
- 2.2.1. On pro
- 2.2.2. On Agreement
- 2.2.3. Subject Clitics and Object Clitics
- 2.2.4. Base Generation of Clitics
- 2.2.5. Case and ?-Role
- 2.3. On the Non-Existence of the Null Subject Parameter
- 2.4. Free Inversion
- 2.5. Causatives
- 2.6. Summary
- 3 ON CLITIC DOUBLING
- 3.0. Introduction
- 3.1. Subject Doubling
- 3.1.1. Northern Italian Dialects
- 3.1.2. Previous Analyses
- 3.1.3. French Dialects
- 3.1.4. Analysis
- 3.2. Object Doubling and Subject Doubling
- 3.2.1. Structures
- 3.2.2. Case Assignment
- 3.3. Extractions
- 3.3.1. The Facts
- 3.3.2. Summary
- 3.3.3. Previous Accounts
- 3.3.4. C-Chains
- 3.4. A Note on Complex Inversion
- 3.5. A Note on Reflexive se
- 3.6. Summary
- 4 CLITICS AND AGREEMENT MARKERS
- 4.0. Introduction
- 4.1. Subject Cliticization
- 4.1.1. Internal Structure of INFL
- 4.1.2. Verb Raising or INFL Lowering?
- 4.1.3. Coordination
- 4.2. Agreement Markers vs. Clitics
- 4.2.1. Coordination
- 4.2.2. Doubling
- 4.2.3. Extractions
- 4.2.4. Obligatoriness
- 4.2.5. Morphology
- 4.2.6. Conclusion
- 4.3. Historical Speculations
- 4.4. Summary
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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