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Record Nr.

UNINA9910973669503321

Titolo

Resumptive pronouns at the interfaces / / edited by Alain Rouveret

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011

ISBN

9786613174925

9781283174923

1283174928

9789027286987

9027286981

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (437 p.)

Collana

Language faculty and beyond, , 1877-6531 ; ; v. 5

Altri autori (Persone)

RouveretAlain

Disciplina

415/.55

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Pronoun

Generative grammar

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"This volume is based on a round table on resumptive pronouns which was held at the UFR de Linguistique, Université Paris-Diderot, on June 21 and 22, 2007."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Syntactic uniformity/diversity of resumption -- pt. 2. Issues in the semantics of resumptive pronouns and epithets.

Sommario/riassunto

This article focuses on the distribution and interpretation of resumption in Jordanian Arabic with respect to a well-known distinction: weak (clitics and doubled pronouns) versus strong (strong pronouns and epithets) resumption. We propose an analysis of resumption and reconstruction that relates two major asymmetries with respect to that distinction, (i) strong resumption banning QP antecedents in non-island contexts, contrary to weak resumption, and (ii) strong resumption banning reconstruction in strong island contexts, contrary to weak resumption. Our main conclusion is that weak (functional) resumptives support two distributive readings, either bound variable or e- type, whereas strong (lexical) resumptives can only get an e-type interpretation. The asymmetries stated above then just follow from further constraints on the two distributive readings.