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Pronouns, clitics and empty nouns : 'pronominality' and licensing in syntax /
Two issues little discussed in the generative literature are the internal structure of pronouns and what it is in Syntax that triggers pronominal reference. This monograph treats these two topics in detail and investigates whether pronominal (strong, weak and clitic pronouns) and related elliptical...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Published: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2002.
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| Series: | Linguistik aktuell ;
Bd. 46. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | Two issues little discussed in the generative literature are the internal structure of pronouns and what it is in Syntax that triggers pronominal reference. This monograph treats these two topics in detail and investigates whether pronominal (strong, weak and clitic pronouns) and related elliptical expressions can be given a unified syntactic representation. The answer, derived from a wealth of cross-linguistic evidence, is largely affirmative: pronominals include a semantically empty noun as part of their internal structure. The case of null subjects in 'pro-drop' languages is also examined a. |
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| Item Description: | Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Essex, 2000. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 211 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-207) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027297594 9027297592 9781588111036 1588111032 |
| ISSN: | 0166-0829 ; |