Topic Drop and Null Subjects in German /

Topic Drop and Null Subjects in German / / Ewa Trutkowski.

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This monograph deals with argument drop in the German prefield and it presents new insights into null subjects, topic drop and the interpretation of topic dropped elements. Major issues are (inter alia) the drop of structurally vs. obliquely cased arguments and the question on which basis nominative...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2016 Part 1
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Trutkowski, Ewa,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Linguistics & Philosophy , 6
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Physical Description:1 online resource (IX, 248 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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