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The Syntax-Information Structure Interface

By Timothy Gupton

Book information

Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2014
ISBN
161451271X, 9781614512714
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2210524 bytes)
Series
Interface Explorations [Ie]
Pages
290\309
Time added
2017-02-12 12:04:32
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Description

The syntactic analysis of preverbal subjects has been the topic of debate for a wide variety of languages. This book establishes clausal word order preferences for Galician, a null-subject language of the Iberian Peninsula, based on quantitative and qualitative data. The experimental methodology and information structure assumptions employed create several testable predictions. The results suggest that, in a wide range of contexts, preverbal subjects behave like canonical elements, and not clitic left-dislocated (CLLD) elements.

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