Book contents
- Continuing Syntax
- Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
- Continuing Syntax
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I Configuration and Hierarchy
- Part II Locality
- 10 Wh-Movement: Unbounded Dependencies, Islands, Subjacency and Barriers
- 11 Covert Movement, Copy Theory and Reconstruction
- 12 Phases and Phase Impenetrability
- 13 Types of Locality: Phases and Relativised Minimality
- 14 The Syntax of Silence I: Ellipsis
- 15 The Syntax of Silence II: Empty Pronouns
- 16 Wrapping up: Parameters, Features and Futures
- Glossary
- Book part
- Index
- References
15 - The Syntax of Silence II: Empty Pronouns
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Book contents
- Continuing Syntax
- Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics
- Continuing Syntax
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Part I Configuration and Hierarchy
- Part II Locality
- 10 Wh-Movement: Unbounded Dependencies, Islands, Subjacency and Barriers
- 11 Covert Movement, Copy Theory and Reconstruction
- 12 Phases and Phase Impenetrability
- 13 Types of Locality: Phases and Relativised Minimality
- 14 The Syntax of Silence I: Ellipsis
- 15 The Syntax of Silence II: Empty Pronouns
- 16 Wrapping up: Parameters, Features and Futures
- Glossary
- Book part
- Index
- References
Summary
In this chapter, we look at empty pronouns: cases of ‘silent deep anaphora’. More specifically, our focus is on null subjects, i.e. silent pronominal subjects, in a range of languages. We identify three main types of null-subject languages and attempt to explain the typology. This leads us to the investigation of the parametric variation across languages.
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- Continuing SyntaxHierarchy and Locality, pp. 290 - 303Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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Further Reading
Barbosa, P. 2019. Pro as a minimal nP: Towards a unified approach to prodrop. Linguistic Inquiry 50: 487–526.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Holmberg, A. 2005. Is there little pro? Evidence from Finnish. Linguistic Inquiry 36: 533–64.10.1162/002438905774464322CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Li, Y.-H. A. 2017. Argument ellipsis and the structures of noun phrases. MS, University of Southern California.Google Scholar
Rizzi, L, 1986. Null objects in Italian and the theory of pro. Linguistic Inquiry 17: 501–57.Google Scholar
Roberts, I. 2019. Parameter Hierarchies and Universal Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Chapter 3.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tomioka, S. 2003. The semantics of Japanese null pronouns and its cross-linguistic implications. In Schwabe, Kerstin & Winkler, Susanne (eds.), The Interfaces: Deriving and interpreting omitted structures. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 321–40.Google Scholar
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