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Author Bennis, Hans.

Title Gaps and dummies / Hans Bennis
Published Dordrecht : Foris Publications, 1986

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Description 1 online resource (338 pages)
Series Linguistic models ; 9
Linguistic models ; 9.
Contents Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Gaps and Parasitic Gaps; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Connectedness; 1.3 Complex cases of PPs; 1.4 Parasitic gaps; 1.5 Parasitic gaps in Dutch; 1.6 Chains and features; 1.7 An alternative approach to parasitic gaps in Dutch; 2. Het as a referential expression; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Weather-het; 2.3 Referential properties of the dummy pronoun het; 2.4 Het and sentential complements; 2.5 Het-Raising; 2.6 Bisentential verbs; 2.7 Het in Small-Clause constructions; 2.8 Het and ergative verbs; 2.9 Psychological verbs; 2.10 Inversion phenomena; 2.11 Summary
3. The adverbial pronoun er3.1 Introduction; 3.2 The distribution of er; 3.3 Categorial status and derivation; 3.4 R-movement and the double-R-constraint; 3.5 Expletive er: a dummy pronoun?; 3.6 Er and wh-movement; 3.7 Conclusion; 4. Some related topics; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Adjunction and Connection; 4.3 The external argument and the structure of Modern English; 4.4 The structure of Old English and its development into Modern English; 4.5 Some remarks on the structure of the Romance languages; 4.6 The pronoun es in German; 4.7 It as a referential expression; 4.8 Concluding remarks
Summary In this study the syntactic properties of empty categories and dummy pronouns are investigated within the framework of Government-Binding theory. The assumption that clauses must have a subject is present in most, if not all, linguistic theories. In GB theory the requirement that clauses have a subject is stipulated as a consequence of the base rules or the Extended Projection Principle. In this book it is claimed that no such stipulation is necessary. The presence of a subject is exclusively determined by the theories of thematic roles and Case. This view is supported by the fact that the a
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-338)
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Subject Dutch language -- Syntax
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
Dutch language -- Pronoun
Dutch language.
Indo-European languages.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
Indo-European languages
Dutch language -- Pronoun
Dutch language
Dutch language -- Syntax
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
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ISBN 9783110889536
3110889536
3110132761
9783110132762