Complementation in Italian
Phonetically Null vs. Totally Absent Complements
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11114544 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Donna Jo Napoli (0000-0001-6320-1086, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 73 |
| Publication date | 1985-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/413421 |
| OpenAlex | W2327975246 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 4 |
Italian sentences which appear to lack propositional arguments of verbs are shown to be base-generated without these verb complements. This analysis accounts for a wide range of syntactic and semantic data, including the fact that movement rules never appear to have operated out of missing complements. The possibility for a given lexical item to lack such a complement is arbitrary (i.e., it is a subcategorization fact); the so-called missing complement need not be associated with a specific interpretation. The polarity, tense, and person of a verb affect the possibility of its allowing a missing complement
Biology · Complementation · Gene · Linguistics · Null (SQL) · Computer Science · Genetics · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,02 |
| Citation span | 1985 - 1985 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |