Subjects, expletives, and the EPP [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Peter Svenonius

• Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2002
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (254 p.)
• Disciplina: 415
• Soggetto topico: Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax; Language and languages - Grammars
• Altri autori: SvenoniusPeter
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. The Que/Qui Alternation and the Distribution of Expletives; 3. Icelandic Expletive Constructions and the Distribution of Subject Types; 4. Expletives, Subjects, and Topics in Finnish; 5. The EPP in a Topic-Prominent Language; 6. The Extended Projection Principle as a Condition on the Tense Dependency; 7. Parameters of Subject Inflection in Italian Dialects; 8. Subject Positions and the Placement of Adverbials; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This collection of previously unpublished articles examines Noam Chomsky's Extended Projection Principle and its relationship to subjects and expletives (works like ""it"" that stand for other words). Re-examining Chomsky's proposition that each clause must have a subject, these articles represent the current state of the debate, particularly with respect to the theory's universal applicability across languages. Presenting an international and highly respected group of contributors, the volume explores these questions in a variety of languages, including Italian, Finnish, Icelandic, and Hungar
• Titolo autorizzato: Subjects, expletives, and the EPP
• ISBN: 0-19-772253-9; 1-280-83515-X; 0-19-534385-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910784746603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford studies in comparative syntax.