The Syntax-Information Structure Interface
Timothy Gupton
The syntactic analysis of preverbal subjects has been the topic of debate for a wide variety of languages. This book establishes clausal word order preferences for Galician, a null-subject language of the Iberian Peninsula, based on quantitative and qualitative data. The experimental methodology and information structure assumptions employed create several testable predictions. The results suggest that, in a wide range of contexts, preverbal subjects behave like canonical elements, and not clitic left-dislocated (CLLD) elements.
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Year:
2014
Publisher:
De Gruyter Mouton
Language:
english
Pages:
290
ISBN 10:
161451271X
ISBN 13:
9781614512714
Series:
Interface Explorations [Ie]
File:
PDF, 2.11 MB
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english, 2014