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Grammatical functions and (null) arguments |
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| Authors: |
Roussou, Anna |
| Reviewer: |
Georgiafentis, Michail |
| Subject: | HUMANITIES AND ARTS > LINGUISTICS > STRUCTURE OF LANGUAGE > GRAMMAR > THEORIES AND MODELS OF GRAMMAR > FORMAL GRAMMARS > GENERATIVE TRANSFORMATIONAL GRAMMAR HUMANITIES AND ARTS > LINGUISTICS > THEORY AND METHOD HUMANITIES AND ARTS > LINGUISTICS > LINGUISTIC UNITS HUMANITIES AND ARTS > LINGUISTICS > STRUCTURE OF LANGUAGE HUMANITIES AND ARTS > LINGUISTICS > FIELDS OF LINGUISTICS > FIELDS RELATED TO THE STRUCTURE OF LANGUAGE > SYNTAX |
| Keywords: |
Minimalism
Merge Agree Parametric Variation Subject Drop Object Drop Extended Projection Principle Chain Copies Probe Goal |
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| Abstract: |
This chapter focuses on the relation between arguments and grammatical functions. It consists of 3 basic secions, followed by a summary, suggestions for further reading, the bibliography and some indicative exercises. Section one introduces the other basic syntactic operation (beyond Merge), namely Agree, which also contributes to the movement as an instance of internal merge. Section two focuses on the realization of the subject and in particular on the pro-drop parameter; it discusses the conditions under which a null subject is available and the interpretations it may receive crosslinguistically. Section 3 considers the case of null objects, the syntactic contexts where it is available, as well the interpretations it receives. Τhis chapter completes the presentation of the basic syntactic operations (merge, internal/external, and Agree) and introduces the reader to the study of crosslinguistic variation on the basis of a well-studied parameter, that of the null subject (with extensions to null objects).
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| Table of Contents: |
Grammatical functions and (null) arguments
5.1. Syntactic subject and Agree 5.2. The syntactic subject 5.2.1. The null subject as an argument 5.2.2. The interpretation of the null subject 5.2.3. The null subject as a pleonastic 5.3. The null object 5.3.1. The interpretation of the null object 5.3.2. The syntactic representation of the object 5.4. Summary 5.5. Suggestions for further reading Bibliography Exercise 1 Instructions for answering Excercise 2 Instructions for answering Exercise 3 Instructions for answering |
| Linguistic Editors: |
Fragkaki, Georgia |
| Technical Editors: |
Ioannis, Angelakos |
| Type: |
Chapter |
| Creation Date: | 2015 |
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| License: |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/gr |
| Handle | http://hdl.handle.net/11419/586 |
| Bibliographic Reference: | Roussou, A. (2015). Grammatical functions and (null) arguments [Chapter]. In Roussou, A. 2015. SYNTAX [Undergraduate textbook]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/586 |
| Language: |
Greek |
| Is Part of: |
SYNTAX |
| Number of pages |
28 |
| Publication Origin: |
Kallipos, Open Academic Editions |