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EPP revisited : evidence from null subject languages
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Sifaki, Evi and Sitaridou, Ioanna (2007) EPP revisited : evidence from null subject languages. In: 17th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Thessaloniki, Greece, 14-17 Apr 2005. Published in: Selected papers on theoretical and applied linguistics, 17 (1). pp. 188-198. doi:10.26262/istal.v17i1.5555 ISSN 2529-1114.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.26262/istal.v17i1.5555
Abstract
The present paper examines the correlation between the pro-drop parameter and rich verbal morphology. With evidence from Greek, Old French (OF) and Brazilian Portuguese (BP), it is shown that null subjects are not licensed only in languages that have rich verbal morphology (e.g. Greek), but also in languages in which the verb may lack some agreement properties (e.g. OF and BP). Moreover, it is argued that the licensing of null subjects is triggered not only for syntactic but also for discourse reasons. Based on evidence from the aforementioned languages the featural requirement represented by the EPP is revisited; EPP simply encodes a P(honological)-feature.
Item Type: | Conference Item (Paper) | ||||
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Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Grammar, Comparative and general -- Null subject, Principles and parameters (Linguistics) | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Selected papers on theoretical and applied linguistics | ||||
Publisher: | University of Thessaloniki | ||||
ISSN: | 2529-1114 | ||||
Official Date: | 2007 | ||||
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Volume: | 17 | ||||
Number: | 1 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 188-198 | ||||
DOI: | 10.26262/istal.v17i1.5555 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 6 September 2022 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 6 September 2022 | ||||
Conference Paper Type: | Paper | ||||
Title of Event: | 17th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics | ||||
Type of Event: | Conference | ||||
Location of Event: | Thessaloniki, Greece | ||||
Date(s) of Event: | 14-17 Apr 2005 | ||||
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