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An I-parameter and its consequences.

Xu, Jie.

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An I-parameter and its consequences.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	An I-parameter and its consequences./
Author:	Xu, Jie.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1993,
Description:	212 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-04, Section: A, page: 9510.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International55-04A.
Subject:	Linguistics. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9425158

An I-parameter and its consequences.
Xu, Jie.

An I-parameter and its consequences. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1993 - 212 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-04, Section: A, page: 9510.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Maryland, College Park, 1993.

The nature of I(nflection) in the Chinese-type languages is fundamentally different from that in the English-type languages. In this thesis, we propose that this difference follows the setting of a single two-valued parameter, the I-Parameter. If the parameter is fixed in the English way, it will contain the three elements (Tense) (Agr) (Predicator). If it is set in the Chinese way, it has only the phonetically null functional category (Predicator) as its content. We argue that the Chinese setting of the parameter represents an unmarked and default value which is due to the absence of required trigger (i.e., inflectional morphology) that would have induced a different way of setting. Pursuing the general approach along which a single parameter setting may result in many superficial differences between languages, we conduct an extensive investigation of the consequences that the setting of this parameter may lead to for an optimal theory of grammar. In particular we argue that different valued I's behave contrastively in the ways in which they select their complements and Case-mark the NPs in their Spec. These two types of contrast are quite general with wide-ranging effects, and subsume enormous typological differences that an optimal theory of grammar must capture in one way or another: AP/NP/PP predicates, 'Topic Constructions,' 'Multiple Nominative Constructions,' subject anaphors, and the null subject phenomena. Along this line of approach, we also review the problems with the proposals of 'the Topic-/Subject-Prominent Language Typology,' 'Lexical/Functional Infl Hypothesis,' 'Null Subject Parameter,' and demonstrate that the language effects captured under them can be recast and explained in a principled way.Subjects--Topical Terms:

524476
Linguistics.

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