Tabla de Contenidos:
  • On the Syntax of Missing Objects
  • Editorial page
  • Title page
  • LCC data
  • Table of contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Comparing and contrasting English, Polish, and Hungarian
  • Structure of the current work
  • Part I.A theory of missing objects
  • Chapter 1. Missing objects in English, Polish, and Hungarian: Developing a theoretical analysis
  • 1.1 Modelling missing objects: Previous approaches
  • 1.1.1 Structures with missing objects are unergative
  • 1.1.2 Missing objects are null variables bound by a null topic
  • 1.1.3 Missing objects are null pronouns linked to a projection in the left periphery1.1.4 Missing objects are pro
  • 1.1.5 Missing objects are deleted full NPs/DPs
  • 1.1.6 Missing objects are inside deleted VPs in verb-standing VP ellipsis
  • 1.1.7 Missing objects are the feature complex {[D], [Ï#x86;]} or {[Ï#x86;]}
  • 1.1.8 Missing objects are null bare nouns
  • 1.1.9 Missing objects are represented by the nominal categorial feature
  • 1.2 Lexical encoding of object drop
  • 1.3 Present analysis: Conclusions from the data
  • 1.4 Present analysis: Basic assumptions
  • Chapter 2. Indefinite missing objects2.1 A transitive analysis of indefinite object drop
  • 2.2 Indefinite missing objects as n
  • 2.2.1 Silence of n
  • 2.2.2 Meaning of n
  • 2.2.3 Indefinite missing objects and incorporation
  • 2.2.4 Syntactic activity of the missing object
  • 2.3 The manner and result components of verb meaning
  • 2.4 Summary and extensions
  • 2.4.1 Extensions: Arbitrary missing objects and control
  • 2.4.2 Extensions: Read Ãı versus kan-shu â#x80;#x98;read-bookâ#x80;#x99;
  • Chapter 3. Definite missing objects
  • 3.1 Definite missing objects as partial pronominal structures3.2 The structure of pronouns in English, Polish, and Hungarian
  • 3.3 Definite missing objects: Syntactic representation, silence, and interpretation
  • 3.3.1 Definite missing objects in English
  • 3.3.2 Definite missing objects in Polish
  • 3.3.3 Definite missing objects in Hungarian
  • 3.3.3.1 Missing objects and verbal conjugation
  • 3.3.3.2 [pl] marker as the blocking factor
  • 3.3.3.3 First/second-person plural objects
  • 3.3.4 An alternative: Null D in English and Polish
  • 3.4 Definite missing objects as n or DP: ConclusionPart II. The phenomenon: Further empirical facts and theoretical considerations
  • Chapter 4. Interpretive properties of missing objects
  • 4.1 General introduction: Anaphoricity and definiteness
  • 4.2 Non-anaphoric missing objects
  • 4.2.1 Analytical possibilities: Lexical ambiguity
  • 4.2.2 Analytical possibilities: Syntactic transitivity
  • 4.2.3 Analytical possibilities: Antipassive
  • 4.2.4 A special case: Human object
  • 4.2.5 A special case: Characteristic property of the instrument