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| ISBN: | 9789027297594
9027297592
1588111032
9781588111036
1588111032
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Essex, 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-207) and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | Two issues little discussed in the generative literature are the internal structure of pronouns and what it is in Syntax that triggers pronominal reference. This monograph treats these two topics in detail and investigates whether pronominal (strong, weak and clitic pronouns) and related elliptical expressions can be given a unified syntactic representation. The answer, derived from a wealth of cross-linguistic evidence, is largely affirmative: pronominals include a semantically empty noun as part of their internal structure. The case of null subjects in 'pro-drop' languages is also examined a.
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| Other form: | Print version: Panagiotidis, Phoevos. Pronouns, clitics and empty nouns. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2002
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