Null subjects

The null subject has always been central to linguistic theory, because it tells us a great deal about the underlying structure of language in the human brain, and about the interface between syntax and semantics. Null subjects exist in languages such as Italian, Chinese, Russian and Greek where the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Camacho, José, autor (autor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2013.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Cambridge studies in linguistics ; 137.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b4201508x*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The null subject parameter: introduction
  • The core content of the null subject parameter
  • The nature of the extended projection principle and the null subject parameter
  • Identification and morphology
  • Discourse identification
  • Null/overt subject contrasts
  • The status of preverbal subjects in null subject languages
  • Parametrization, learnability and acquisition.