Subjects and Universal Grammar : An Explanatory Theory / Yehuda N. Falk.

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Book

Author/Creator:

Falk, Yehuda N., 1958-2012.

Series:

Cambridge books online.

Cambridge Studies in Linguistics ; no. 113

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Topic and comment.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Noun phrase.

Focus (Linguistics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Contents:

List of abbreviations used in glosses xvii

1 On subjects and explanation 1

1.2 Subject properties 2

1.2.1 First approximation 2

1.2.2 Case and subjects 7

1.2.3 Second approximation 12

1.3 On explanation 16

1.3.2 Subject as structural position 16

1.3.3 Subject as grammatical relation 19

1.3.4 Subject as grammatical function 21

1.4 The formal framework 24

1.5 A look ahead 28

2 Most prominent argument 30

2.1 Argumenthood 30

2.1.1 First approximation 30

2.1.2 Argument structure and hierarchies 32

2.1.3 Most prominent argument 36

2.1.4 Mismatches between argument structure and grammatical functions 39

2.1.5 Mapping in mixed-subject languages 44

2.1.6 Further thoughts on argument mapping 46

2.2 Specification of argument properties 47

2.2.2 Null arguments 49

2.2.3 Imperative addressee 59

2.3 Anaphora 60

2.3.1 Anaphoric prominence 60

2.3.2 Switch-reference 66

3 Pivot 73

3.1 The pivot function 73

3.1.2 Formalization: the Pivot Condition 76

3.2 Uniform subjects and mixed subjects 78

3.3 Pivothood and constructions 83

3.3.1 Types of constructions 83

3.3.2 Distinguishing formal constructions 89

3.3.3 Multiple pivots 92

3.4 Clause-internal PIV properties 95

3.4.1 External position 95

3.4.2 Other clause-internal properties 98

3.5 Some morphology 100

3.6 Forthcoming attractions 105

4 Long-distance dependencies 106

4.1 About long-distance dependencies 106

4.1.1 Functional uncertainty 107

4.1.2 Pivots and non-pivots 110

4.1.3 Matrix subjects 119

4.2 Across-the-board extraction 122

4.3 The that-trace effect 128

5 Control constructions 135

5.2 The semantic basis of control 137

5.3 Syntactic types of control 140

5.4 Subjecthood and control 142

5.4.2 Case study: Tagalog 147

5.4.3 A non-problem in Balinese 152

5.5 Other control constructions 154

5.5.1 Non-complement equi 154

5.5.2 Raising 155

6 Universality 163

6.1 Non-subject languages 163

6.2 The realization of arguments 166

6.3 Universality of the Pivot Function 170

6.3.1 Case study: Acehnese 170

6.3.2 Topic prominence 175

6.3.3 Pivotless languages 178

7 Competing theories 197

7.1 Other approaches 197

7.2 Typological approach 198

7.3 Functionalism 201

7.4 Inverse mapping and multistratal subjects 203

7.5 Constituent structure approaches 208

Language index 231.

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