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On the identification of null arguments.

Modesto, Marcello.

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On the identification of null arguments.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	On the identification of null arguments./
Author:	Modesto, Marcello.
Description:	355 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-02, Section: A, page: 5800.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-02A.
Subject:	Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3041501
ISBN:	9780493549606

On the identification of null arguments.
Modesto, Marcello.

On the identification of null arguments. - 355 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-02, Section: A, page: 5800.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Southern California, 2000.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Although the grammaticality of null subjects in finite clauses in languages like Chinese, which present no overt agreement morphology, is known to linguists since at least Huang 1982, the prevalent view on the topic has been that null arguments are allowed in a particular language by some property of either the Agreement head or of verbal inflectional paradigms. It is believed, for instance, that most Romance languages allow null subjects in finite clauses because verbal inflection, in these languages, is enough to identify the grammatical features of the subject. In this dissertation, I argue that, in fact, the relation between null arguments and so called "rich" agreement is verifiable in many languages, however, not all languages license null arguments in that manner. Based mainly on data from Brazilian Portuguese, I show that "poor" agreement languages, as well as languages with no overt agreement, like Chinese, may identify null arguments using a strategy that involves A'-binding by a non-expletive element. If a language allows identification by A'-binding, a null pronoun may be identified by being interpreted as a variable at LF, acquiring grammatical features such as person and number from its binder. Alternatively, if the null pronoun is moved to an A'-position, the variable left by movement of the pronoun may be bound by a non-expletive element occupying an A'-position, thus acquiring its features, and transferring them to the pronoun. Since this strategy restricts the antecedent of null pronouns to A'-elements, the restricted interpretation possibilities of null arguments in Brazilian Portuguese and Chinese are accounted for.

ISBN: 9780493549606Subjects--Topical Terms:

524476
Linguistics.

On the identification of null arguments.
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