The theory of empty categories and the pro-drop parameter in Modern Greek
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10141346 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Irene Philippaki-Warburton, Irene Philippaki‐warburton (University of Reading, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 289-318 |
| Publication date | 1987-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-2267 • E-ISSN: 1469-7742 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022226700011282 |
| OpenAlex | W2147767113 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 42 |
| References cited | 13 |
One of the most promising new developments of recent research into theoretical syntax within the model of Government and Binding (GB) as presented in Chomsky (1981) and (1982) has been the new importance given to the study of languages other than English. This has stimulated a great deal of work into a variety of languages (see, for example, Rizzi, 1982; Borer, 1983; Bouchard, 1984; Huang, 1984 and others). It has also been welcomed by linguists outside the TG tradition. Thus, Comrie, (1984:155) expresses his delight that ‘Chomsky (1981) makes clear that generative grammarians have come to realize that an adequate study of syntax within universal grammar requires the study of languages of different types. Chomsky's main concern has always been to formulate a theory that would achieve ‘explanatory adequacy’ by providing a restrictive set of principles which could characterize universally the notion ‘natural language’. However, detailed and in-depth analyses of various languages have revealed that in order to achieve ‘descriptive adequacy’ the theory has to allow for cross-linguistic differences, or ‘parametric variation’. The concept of parametric variation weakens some-what the restrictiveness of the universal grammar (UG) hypothesis and even more so its purported innateness, since the values for the parameters must be arrived at by the child through induction from empirical evidence. Nevertheless, explanatory adequacy may still be attained if the number of parameters is very small and each parameter has few values
Generative grammar · Grammar · Linguistics · Minimalist program · Parametric statistics · Restrictiveness · Statistics · Syntax · Theoretical linguistics · Universal Grammar · Variation (astronomy · Variety (cybernetics · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
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Null/overt subject alternations in L2 Spanish and L2 Greek
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First language attrition and syntactic subjects
Effects of parental input quality in child heritage language acquisition
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Pronominal Attrition, Clitic Doubling and Typological Change
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Word Order Flexibility and Adjacency Preferences
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NP-anaphora in Modern Greek
Raising constructions in Haitian Creole
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Hidden causality in Modern Greek
An A-Binding Asymmetry in Null Subject Languages and Its Significance for Universal Grammar
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Ancient Greek Infinitives and Phases
Agrammatic production
Moving from theta-positions
Turn Over Control to the Semantics
Lingering Challenges to the Raising-to-object and Object-control Constructions
Expanding the Scope of Control and Raising
The Virtues of Control as Movement
Severing the Distribution of PRO from Case
Against Chomsky's typology of empty categories
Clitics in idioms
The Place, Range, and Taxonomy of Control and Raising
Parametric Syntax
Issues in Italian Syntax
Connectedness and binary branching
The order of constituents in modern Greek
Order, Concord, and Constituency
Lectures on Government and Binding
On the Nature of the Matching Parameter
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Bounding theory and Greek syntax
Modern Greek clitic pronouns and the ‘surface structure constraints’ hypothesis
| Unique citing works | 42 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,24 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2026 (35) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 42 |