Null arguments in old Norwegian

Interaction between pronouns and the functional categories of the clause

Bibliographic Data

ID4567795
AuthorsKari Kinn (0000-0003-3929-1653, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume17
Issue2
Pages309-346
Publication date2017-12-31
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLinguistic Variation (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2211-6834 • E-ISSN: 2211-6842
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/lv.15018.kin
OpenAlexW4250418910
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited59

In this paper I propose a new analysis of null arguments in Old Norwegian. I argue that the option of null realization in Old Norwegian correlates with a distinction between φP and DP pronouns in the sense ofDéchaine & Wiltschko (2002), and that this distribution can be captured by a version of pronoun deletion (Roberts 2010b). On a more general, theoretical level, I argue that both the structure of pronouns and that of the functional domains C, T and v influence the null argument properties of a language. Thus, null arguments, but also blocking of null arguments in non-null-argument languages like Modern Norwegian and English, may be derived in different ways

Biology · Combinatorics · Linguistics · Norwegian · Null hypothesis · Null model · Pronoun · Statistics · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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