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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Trutkowski, Ewa
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: De Gruyter, 2016.
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.