Null Subjects in Slavic and Finno-Ugric: Licensing, Structure and Typology

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Null Subjects in Slavic and Finno-Ugric

Licensing, Structure and Typology

Edited by: Gréte Dalmi , Egor Tsedryk and Piotr Cegłowski

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2022

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Volume 145 | Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]

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Even though null subjects have been extensively studied in the past four decades, there is a growing interest in partial null subject languages (e.g. Finnish) and a subtler classification of null subject phenomena overall. This volume aims at contributing to this trend, focusing on Slavic and Finno-Ugric groups, with some extension to Baltic and Samoyedic languages. Interestingly, these groups offer an impressive array of macro- and microvariation. Moreover, given an increasing interest towards the internal structure of the pronominal elements and the role of various types of topics in the left periphery of the sentence structure, the enterprise taken up in this book is to investigate lexical and null, referential and generic subjects in order to understand and compare their feature composition, licensing conditions, and structural properties. Rather than trying to squeeze the studied languages into a predefined set of parameters, this volume highlights some properties that may lead to a refinement of the existing generalizations. It brings together contributors from both generative and typological traditions and will be of interest to any researcher willing to investigate argument-drop in a wider crosslinguistic perspective.

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Gréte Dalmi, Budapest; Egor Tsedryk, Saint Mary's University, Halifax; Piotr Cegłowski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań.

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Contents
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List of contributors
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List of abbreviations
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List of figures
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Editors’ note
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Acknowledgements
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Preface
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1 Pro subject(ed) to challenge: The concept of the null subject and typologies of Null Subject Languages
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Jacek Witkoś
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2 Null subjects and their overt counterparts in East Slavic root clauses: Referential and non-referential readings
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Egor Tsedryk
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3 Referential null subjects in Russian: A synchronic and diachronic overview
75
Nerea Madariaga
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4 Interpreting null subjects in Polish: Against left-peripheral linking
105
Marta Ruda
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5 The features of null subjects: A case study of Czech
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Ludmila Veselovská
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6 Subject realization in Bulgarian, a consistent null subject language: Theoretical issues and empirical facts
177
Dobrinka Genevska-Hanke
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7 Types of null arguments in Baltic
205
Axel Holvoet and Anna Daugavet
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8 Interpreting null subjects in Finnish finite sentences
229
Urpo Nikanne
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9 Who on earth is pro? – Licensing null arguments in Hungarian matrix and dependent clauses
253
Gréte Dalmi
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10 Null subjects in Mari
281
Jeremy Bradley and Johannes Hirvonen
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11 Two types of null subjects in South Saami
307
Mikael Vinka
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12 Null subjects in Selkup and Nganasan
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Susann Fischer and Beáta Wagner-Nagy
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13 Concluding remarks
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Piotr Cegłowski
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Index
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January 31, 2022

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28

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379

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Keywords for this book

Overt Pronoun; Null Subject; Topic Chain; Generic Reference

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Researchers, Students in Theoretical Linguistics, Linguistic Typology, Slavic and Finno-Ugric Studies

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Null Subjects in Slavic and Finno-Ugric

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Contents

List of contributors

List of abbreviations

List of figures

Editors’ note

Acknowledgements

Preface

1 Pro subject(ed) to challenge: The concept of the null subject and typologies of Null Subject Languages

2 Null subjects and their overt counterparts in East Slavic root clauses: Referential and non-referential readings

3 Referential null subjects in Russian: A synchronic and diachronic overview

4 Interpreting null subjects in Polish: Against left-peripheral linking

5 The features of null subjects: A case study of Czech

6 Subject realization in Bulgarian, a consistent null subject language: Theoretical issues and empirical facts

7 Types of null arguments in Baltic

8 Interpreting null subjects in Finnish finite sentences

9 Who on earth is pro? – Licensing null arguments in Hungarian matrix and dependent clauses

10 Null subjects in Mari

11 Two types of null subjects in South Saami

12 Null subjects in Selkup and Nganasan

13 Concluding remarks

Index

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