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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788424203321

Titolo

Null pronouns [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Melani Wratil, Peter Gallmann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011

ISBN

1-283-42995-0

9786613429957

3-11-218933-7

3-11-023871-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (276 p.)

Collana

Studies in generative grammar ; ; 106

Classificazione

ET 670

Altri autori (Persone)

WratilMelani

GallmannPeter

Disciplina

415/.55

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Pronoun

Generative grammar

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Table of contents -- Introduction / Wratil, Melani / Gallmann, Peter -- Pro-drop in the history of German - From Old High German to the modern dialects / Axel, Katrin / Weiß, Helmut -- Historical pathways to null subjects: Implications for the theory of pro-drop / Fuß, Eric -- Uncovered pro - On the development and identification of null subjects / Wratil, Melani -- Silent resumptives in Zurich German possessor relativization / Salzmann, Martin -- Anti-agreement with subjects and possessors from a typological perspective: A case for null pronouns or for economy? / Ortmann, Albert -- Language index -- Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

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.