Null Pronouns / / ed. by Peter Gallmann, Melani Wratil.
Most natural languages display an inventory of pronominal elements that obligatorily or optionally remain phonologically null in a few, in many or even in all syntactic surroundings. The authors of the papers compiled in this book analyse such null pronouns in a synchronic and diachronic way and rec...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (270 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Pro-drop in the history of German – From Old High German to the modern dialects -- Historical pathways to null subjects: Implications for the theory of pro-drop -- Uncovered pro – On the development and identification of null subjects -- Silent resumptives in Zurich German possessor relativization -- Anti-agreement with subjects and possessors from a typological perspective: A case for null pronouns or for economy? -- Language index -- Subject index |
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Summary: | Most natural languages display an inventory of pronominal elements that obligatorily or optionally remain phonologically null in a few, in many or even in all syntactic surroundings. The authors of the papers compiled in this book analyse such null pronouns in a synchronic and diachronic way and recover the specific morphological and syntactic prerequisites for their origin and insertion. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110238716 9783110238570 9783110238457 9783110636970 9783110742961 9783110261189 9783110261233 9783110261226 9783110261240 |
ISSN: | 0167-4331 ; |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110238716 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | ed. by Peter Gallmann, Melani Wratil. |