Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Ruda, Marta, author

Title On the syntax of missing objects : a study with special reference to English, Polish, and Hungarian / Marta Ruda
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]

Copies

Description 1 online resource
Series Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today (LA), 0166-0829 ; volume 244
Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 244.
Contents On the Syntax of Missing Objects -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Comparing and contrasting English, Polish, and Hungarian -- Structure of the current work -- Part I.A theory of missing objects -- Chapter 1. Missing objects in English, Polish, and Hungarian: Developing a theoretical analysis -- 1.1 Modelling missing objects: Previous approaches -- 1.1.1 Structures with missing objects are unergative -- 1.1.2 Missing objects are null variables bound by a null topic
1.1.3 Missing objects are null pronouns linked to a projection in the left periphery1.1.4 Missing objects are pro -- 1.1.5 Missing objects are deleted full NPs/DPs -- 1.1.6 Missing objects are inside deleted VPs in verb-standing VP ellipsis -- 1.1.7 Missing objects are the feature complex {[D], [Ï#x86;]} or {[Ï#x86;]} -- 1.1.8 Missing objects are null bare nouns -- 1.1.9 Missing objects are represented by the nominal categorial feature -- 1.2 Lexical encoding of object drop -- 1.3 Present analysis: Conclusions from the data -- 1.4 Present analysis: Basic assumptions
Chapter 2. Indefinite missing objects2.1 A transitive analysis of indefinite object drop -- 2.2 Indefinite missing objects as n -- 2.2.1 Silence of n -- 2.2.2 Meaning of n -- 2.2.3 Indefinite missing objects and incorporation -- 2.2.4 Syntactic activity of the missing object -- 2.3 The manner and result components of verb meaning -- 2.4 Summary and extensions -- 2.4.1 Extensions: Arbitrary missing objects and control -- 2.4.2 Extensions: Read Ãı versus kan-shu â#x80;#x98;read-bookâ#x80;#x99; -- Chapter 3. Definite missing objects
3.1 Definite missing objects as partial pronominal structures3.2 The structure of pronouns in English, Polish, and Hungarian -- 3.3 Definite missing objects: Syntactic representation, silence, and interpretation -- 3.3.1 Definite missing objects in English -- 3.3.2 Definite missing objects in Polish -- 3.3.3 Definite missing objects in Hungarian -- 3.3.3.1 Missing objects and verbal conjugation -- 3.3.3.2 [pl] marker as the blocking factor -- 3.3.3.3 First/second-person plural objects -- 3.3.4 An alternative: Null D in English and Polish
3.4 Definite missing objects as n or DP: ConclusionPart II. The phenomenon: Further empirical facts and theoretical considerations -- Chapter 4. Interpretive properties of missing objects -- 4.1 General introduction: Anaphoricity and definiteness -- 4.2 Non-anaphoric missing objects -- 4.2.1 Analytical possibilities: Lexical ambiguity -- 4.2.2 Analytical possibilities: Syntactic transitivity -- 4.2.3 Analytical possibilities: Antipassive -- 4.2.4 A special case: Human object -- 4.2.5 A special case: Characteristic property of the instrument
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 09, 2017)
Subject Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
English language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Polish
English language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Hungarian
Polish language -- Grammar, Comparative -- English
Polish language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Hungarian
Hungarian language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Polish
Hungarian language -- Grammar, Comparative -- English
Generative grammar.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Syntax.
English language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Hungarian
English language -- Grammar, Comparative -- Polish
Generative grammar
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
Hungarian language -- Grammar, Comparative -- English
Polish language -- Grammar, Comparative -- English
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017047436
ISBN 9789027264831
902726483X