Null Subjects in Slavic and Finno-Ugric: Licensing, Structure and Typology

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2022

Null Subjects in Slavic and Finno-Ugric

Licensing, Structure and Typology

Edited by: Gréte Dalmi , Egor Tsedryk and Piotr Cegłowski

Volume 145 in the series Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501513848

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About this book

Even though null subjects have been extensively studied in the past four decades, there is a growing interest in partial null subject languages (e.g. Finnish) and a subtler classification of null subject phenomena overall. This volume aims at contributing to this trend, focusing on Slavic and Finno-Ugric groups, with some extension to Baltic and Samoyedic languages. Interestingly, these groups offer an impressive array of macro- and microvariation. Moreover, given an increasing interest towards the internal structure of the pronominal elements and the role of various types of topics in the left periphery of the sentence structure, the enterprise taken up in this book is to investigate lexical and null, referential and generic subjects in order to understand and compare their feature composition, licensing conditions, and structural properties. Rather than trying to squeeze the studied languages into a predefined set of parameters, this volume highlights some properties that may lead to a refinement of the existing generalizations. It brings together contributors from both generative and typological traditions and will be of interest to any researcher willing to investigate argument-drop in a wider crosslinguistic perspective.

Author / Editor information

Gréte Dalmi, Budapest; Egor Tsedryk, Saint Mary's University, Halifax; Piotr Cegłowski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
List of contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
List of abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
List of figures Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Editors’ note Publicly Available Download PDF	XV
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	XXI
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	XXIII
1 Pro subject(ed) to challenge: The concept of the null subject and typologies of Null Subject Languages Jacek Witkoś Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 Null subjects and their overt counterparts in East Slavic root clauses: Referential and non-referential readings Egor Tsedryk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
3 Referential null subjects in Russian: A synchronic and diachronic overview Nerea Madariaga Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
4 Interpreting null subjects in Polish: Against left-peripheral linking Marta Ruda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
5 The features of null subjects: A case study of Czech Ludmila Veselovská Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
6 Subject realization in Bulgarian, a consistent null subject language: Theoretical issues and empirical facts Dobrinka Genevska-Hanke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
7 Types of null arguments in Baltic Axel Holvoet and Anna Daugavet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
8 Interpreting null subjects in Finnish finite sentences Urpo Nikanne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
9 Who on earth is pro? – Licensing null arguments in Hungarian matrix and dependent clauses Gréte Dalmi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
10 Null subjects in Mari Jeremy Bradley and Johannes Hirvonen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
11 Two types of null subjects in South Saami Mikael Vinka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
12 Null subjects in Selkup and Nganasan Susann Fischer and Beáta Wagner-Nagy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
13 Concluding remarks Piotr Cegłowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	375

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Researchers, Students in Theoretical Linguistics, Linguistic Typology, Slavic and Finno-Ugric Studies
Pages
- Front matter: 28
- Main content: 379
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 1
- Coloured Illustrations: 2
- Tables: 12
Keywords: Overt Pronoun; Null Subject; Topic Chain; Generic Reference

eBook

Published: January 19, 2022
ISBN: 9781501513848

Hardcover

Published: January 31, 2022
ISBN: 9781501520228