The Impact of Agreement on the Licensing of Null Arguments

• 영문명: The Impact of Agreement on the Licensing of Null Arguments
• 발행기관: 한국영어교육연구학회
• 저자명: Yuhua Gao Lirong Ding
• 간행물 정보: 『영어교육연구』제47호, 9~30쪽, 전체 22쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 교육학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2015.11.30

영문 초록

This paper attempts to illustrate the impact of agreement on the licensing of null arguments, especially on pro and argument ellipsis (henceforth AE) in Italian, Turkish, Serbo-Croatian (henceforth SC) and Mandarin Chinese (henceforth MC). Subject pros in agreement pro-drop languages like Italian and Turkish, and object pros in SC, are supposed to be licensed by subject or object-predicate agreement. By contrast, I argue, in radical pro-drop languages without agreement at all like MC, subject pro is licensed by discourse and context, along with the definiteness restriction on the pre-verbal subject position. Moreover, I further argue that invariant nominal gender prohibits the licensing of AE in SC, a NP language with rich agreement within Traditional Noun Phrase (henceforth TNP).

목차

I. Introduction

II. Agreement

III. Gender

IV. Conclusion

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키워드

pro Argument ellipsis agreement invariant gender licensing condition