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Subjects, expletives, and the EPP / edited by Peter Svenonius.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford studies in comparative syntax.
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford studies in comparative syntax
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.
- Grammar, Comparative and general.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (254 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection of previously unpublished articles examines Noam Chomsky's Extended Projection Principle and its relationship to subjects and expletives (words like 'it' that stand for other words).
- Contents:
- Contents; Contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. The Que/Qui Alternation and the Distribution of Expletives; 3. Icelandic Expletive Constructions and the Distribution of Subject Types; 4. Expletives, Subjects, and Topics in Finnish; 5. The EPP in a Topic-Prominent Language; 6. The Extended Projection Principle as a Condition on the Tense Dependency; 7. Parameters of Subject Inflection in Italian Dialects; 8. Subject Positions and the Placement of Adverbials; Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2002.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-772253-9
- 1-280-83515-X
- 0-19-534385-9
- OCLC:
- 476260681
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