Null Subjects in Slavic and Finno-Ugric : : Licensing, Structure and Typology / / ed. by Gréte Dalmi, Egor Tsedryk, Piotr Cegłowski.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Bradley, Jeremy,; Cegłowski, Piotr,; Dalmi, Gréte,; Daugavet, Anna,; Fischer, Susann,; Genevska-Hanke, Dobrinka,; Hirvonen, Johannes,; Holvoet, Axel,; Madariaga, Nerea,; Nikanne, Urpo,; Ruda, Marta,; Tsedryk, Egor,; Veselovská, Ludmila,; Vinka, Mikael,; Wagner-Nagy, Beáta,; Witkoś, Jacek,
• HerausgeberIn: Cegłowski, Piotr,; Dalmi, Gréte,; Tsedryk, Egor,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] , 145
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XXVIII, 379 p.)

Even though null subjects have been extensively studied in the past four decades, there is a growing interest in partial null subject languages (e.g. Finnish) and a subtler classification of null subject phenomena overall. This volume aims at contributing to this trend, focusing on Slavic and Finno-Ugric groups, with some extension to Baltic and Samoyedic languages. Interestingly, these groups offer an impressive array of macro- and microvariation. Moreover, given an increasing interest towards the internal structure of the pronominal elements and the role of various types of topics in the left periphery of the sentence structure, the enterprise taken up in this book is to investigate lexical and null, referential and generic subjects in order to understand and compare their feature composition, licensing conditions, and structural properties. Rather than trying to squeeze the studied languages into a predefined set of parameters, this volume highlights some properties that may lead to a refinement of the existing generalizations. It brings together contributors from both generative and typological traditions and will be of interest to any researcher willing to investigate argument-drop in a wider crosslinguistic perspective.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of contributors -- List of abbreviations -- List of figures -- Editors’ note -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 Pro subject(ed) to challenge: The concept of the null subject and typologies of Null Subject Languages -- 2 Null subjects and their overt counterparts in East Slavic root clauses: Referential and non-referential readings -- 3 Referential null subjects in Russian: A synchronic and diachronic overview -- 4 Interpreting null subjects in Polish: Against left-peripheral linking -- 5 The features of null subjects: A case study of Czech -- 6 Subject realization in Bulgarian, a consistent null subject language: Theoretical issues and empirical facts -- 7 Types of null arguments in Baltic -- 8 Interpreting null subjects in Finnish finite sentences -- 9 Who on earth is pro? – Licensing null arguments in Hungarian matrix and dependent clauses -- 10 Null subjects in Mari -- 11 Two types of null subjects in South Saami -- 12 Null subjects in Selkup and Nganasan -- 13 Concluding remarks -- Index