Basque nominalizations and the role of structural Case in the licensing of null arguments
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07/11/2013
07/11/2013
2012
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Resumo |
[EN] This article investigates the question of the licensing of null arguments in the so-called pro-drop languages. By focusing on the licensing of null subjects in the different types of -T(Z)E nominalizations in Basque, it aims at defining in a precise way the crucial feature that makes pro-drop possible in a clause. The central claim is that what licenses subject-drop is the assignment of structural Case. That is, it is argued that a subject can be null if and only if it is assigned structural Case. Different aspects of T(Z)E nominalizations are also explored, which show that even if these clauses are similar in the surface, they can be syntactically very different and furthermore, that infinitive clauses marked with the same nominalizing morpheme can also have diverging structures. |
Identificador |
Noun Phrases and Nominalization in Basque: syntatx and semantics : 333-374 (2012) 9789027255709 9789027274540 |
Idioma(s) |
eng |
Publicador |
John Benjamins |
Relação |
http://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/la.187/toc http://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/la.187.15dug/details |
Direitos |
© 2012 John Benjamins Publishing Company info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
Palavras-Chave | #basque #nominalization #null argument #non-finite structures #structural case #pro-drop |
Tipo |
info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart |