Topic Drop and Null Subjects in German.
"This study presents new insights into null subjects, topic drop and the interpretation of topic-dropped elements. Besides providing an empirical data survey, it offers explanations to well-known problems, e.g. syncretisms in the context of null-subject licensing or the marginality of dropping...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
Publicado: |
De Gruyter,
2016.
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Colección: | Linguistics & philosophy ;
v. 6. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Foreword
- Contents
- 1. Overview
- 2. Topic Drop in German: (The Lack of) Identity between Antecedent and Gap
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Verbatim and Non-verbatim Topic Drop: Two Kinds of Topic Drop in German
- 2.3 An Empirical Basis for the VTD/NVTD Distinction
- 2.4 Structural Well-Formedness Conditions on VTD and NVTD
- 2.5 Topic Drop and the Event Structure of Structural and Oblique Case Assigning Verbs
- 2.6 Topic Drop and the Representation of +/-Complex Events
- 2.7 Appendix: Topic Drop of Expletive Elements
- 3. Topic Drop in German: The Interpretation of the Gap
- 4. Null Subjects at the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface
- References
- Index.