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Empty, Expletive, and Missing Subjects in German

Empty, Expletive, and Missing Subjects in German

Hardcover

Series: Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics, Book 11

GermanLinguistics

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ISBN10: 0820422495
ISBN13: 9780820422497
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Oct 1 1994
Pages: 114
Language: English
One of the central claims of the Government-Binding theory of syntax is the Extended Projection Principle, which stipulates that every clause has a subject. For those clauses which lack an overt subject, a phonologically null, or empty , category is presumed to occupy subject positon. This book argues against the Extended Projection principle. After an analysis of infinitivals and an investigation into the nature of empty categories, the book offers a more exact and consistent notion of the different types of empty categories and demonstrates that subjects are impossible in certain German sentences.

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Rauch, Irmengard

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German