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Gaps and Dummies.
In this study the syntactic properties of empty categories and dummy pronouns are investigated within the framework of Government-Binding theory. The assumption that clauses must have a subject is present in most, if not all, linguistic theories. In GB theory the requirement that clauses have a subj...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter,
1987.
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| Colección: | Linguistic models.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Gaps and Parasitic Gaps
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Connectedness
- 1.3 Complex cases of PPs
- 1.4 Parasitic gaps
- 1.5 Parasitic gaps in Dutch
- 1.6 Chains and features
- 1.7 An alternative approach to parasitic gaps in Dutch
- 2. Het as a referential expression
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Weather-het
- 2.3 Referential properties of the dummy pronoun het
- 2.4 Het and sentential complements
- 2.5 Het-Raising
- 2.6 Bisentential verbs
- 2.7 Het in Small-Clause constructions
- 2.8 Het and ergative verbs
- 2.9 Psychological verbs.
- 2.10 Inversion phenomena
- 2.11 Summary
- 3. The adverbial pronoun er
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 The distribution of er
- 3.3 Categorial status and derivation
- 3.4 R-movement and the double-R-constraint
- 3.5 Expletive er: a dummy pronoun?
- 3.6 Er and wh-movement
- 3.7 Conclusion
- 4. Some related topics
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Adjunction and Connection
- 4.3 The external argument and the structure of Modern English
- 4.4 The structure of Old English and its development into Modern English
- 4.5 Some remarks on the structure of the Romance languages
- 4.6 The pronoun es in German.
- 4.7 It as a referential expression
- 4.8 Concluding remarks
- References.