Information structure and agreement
by Camacho Taboada, María Victoria Jiménez-Fernández, Ángel L. Martín-González, Javier Reyes-Tejedor, Mariano
The existing syntactic accounts of null arguments typically rely either on the specific licensing conditions for different types of empty categories such as pro and (topic- )bound variables, or else on different kinds of ellipsis. In trying to address the radical argument drop character of Catalan Sign Language (LSC), this paper critically reassesses the two main trends in the analysis of this phenomenon in East Asian languages and their extensions to American Sign Language (ASL). Both hybrid a…
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- Full title :Information structure and agreement / edited by Victoria Camacho-Taboada [and others].
Summary
The existing syntactic accounts of null arguments typically rely either on the specific licensing conditions for different types of empty categories such as pro and (topic- )bound variables, or else on different kinds of ellipsis. In trying to address the radical argument drop character of Catalan Sign Language (LSC), this paper critically reassesses the two main trends in the analysis of this phenomenon in East Asian languages and their extensions to American Sign Language (ASL). Both hybrid and uniform approaches to empty arguments turn out to be unable to account for the non-negligibl.
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- Publication Date:©2013
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):John Benjamins Pub. Co
- Place of Publication:Amsterdam
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2013
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (vi, 376 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789027273024, 9027273022, 9027255806, 9789027255808
- oclc:ocn828743330
- LC Classification:P291
- Dewey Decimal:415
Table of Contents
Information Structure and Agreement; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Information structure, agreement and CP; References; The complementiser system in spoken English; 1. Introduction; 2. C1 in complement clauses; 3. C2 in declarative complement clauses; 4. C2 in subordinate adverbial clauses; 5. C2 in subordinate wh-clauses; 6. C2 in comparative correlatives; 7. C2 in root focus and exclamative clauses; 8. C2 in root clauses after modal adverbials; 9. C2 in other root clauses; 10. Asymmetry between C1 and C2 structures; 11. Source of C1 and C2 structures; 12. Summary.
5.1 Exploring the correlation5.2 Parallel structures and the interpretation of features across phases; 5.3 IS-feature composition and syntactic visibility; 6. Conclusions; 7. An 'afterthought': Givenness in a feature-based approach; References; The alternation between improper indirect questions and restrictive relatives; 1. Introduction; 2. The distinction between proper and improper indirect questions; 2.1 Proper and improper indirect questions in Spanish and English; 2.2 Proper and improper indirect questions in European Portuguese.
3. Predicate selection and the alternation between impr…
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