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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.
This book discusses existential and possessive constructions in two
important, yet under-studied, language families, Slavic and
Finno-Ugric. Using data from the Slavic languages of Polish,
Belarusian and Russian, and the Finno-Ugric languages of Finnish,
Hungarian, Meadow Mari, Komi-Permiyak and Udmurt, as well as the
closely related Selkup of the Samoyedic family, the chapters in
this volume analyse predicative possession in current syntactic
terms. Seeking an answer to the theoretical question of whether
BE-possessives and HAVE-possessives are just accidental values of
the 'Possessive Parameter' or are intrinsically related, this book
takes a comparative approach to a whole range of syntactic and
semantic phenomena that appear in these constructions, including
the definiteness restriction, genitive of negation, person/number
agreement, argument structure and extractability. The individual
case studies can be easily integrated into the Principles &
Parameters framework in terms of parametric variation. Approaches
to Predicative Possession is an important contribution to our
understanding of predicative possession across languages, with
findings that can be fruitfully extended to other language
families. It is an equally useful source of information for
theoretical linguists, typologists, and graduate students of
linguistics.
This book discusses existential and possessive constructions in two
important, yet under-studied, language families, Slavic and
Finno-Ugric. Using data from the Slavic languages of Polish,
Belarusian and Russian, and the Finno-Ugric languages of Finnish,
Hungarian, Meadow Mari, Komi-Permiyak and Udmurt, as well as the
closely related Selkup of the Samoyedic family, the chapters in
this volume analyse predicative possession in current syntactic
terms. Seeking an answer to the theoretical question of whether
BE-possessives and HAVE-possessives are just accidental values of
the 'Possessive Parameter' or are intrinsically related, this book
takes a comparative approach to a whole range of syntactic and
semantic phenomena that appear in these constructions, including
the definiteness restriction, genitive of negation, person/number
agreement, argument structure and extractability. The individual
case studies can be easily integrated into the Principles &
Parameters framework in terms of parametric variation. Approaches
to Predicative Possession is an important contribution to our
understanding of predicative possession across languages, with
findings that can be fruitfully extended to other language
families. It is an equally useful source of information for
theoretical linguists, typologists, and graduate students of
linguistics.
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