Cargando…
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 |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Dordrecht :
Foris Publications,
1986.
|
| Colección: | Linguistic models ;
9. |
| Temas: | |
| 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 er3.1 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