30.1099, Books: Referential Null Subjects in Early English: Rusten

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Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 23:59:36
From: Alyssa Russell [Alyssa.Russell at oup.com]
Subject: Referential Null Subjects in Early English: Rusten

 


Title: Referential Null Subjects in Early English 
Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
	   http://www.oup.com/us
	

Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/referential-null-subjects-in-early-english-9780198808237 


Author: Kristian A. Rusten

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198808237 Pages: 272 Price: U.S. $ 85.00


Abstract:

This book offers a large-scale quantitative investigation of referential null
subjects as they occur in Old, Middle, and Early Modern English. Using corpus
linguistic methods, and drawing on five corpora of early English, it
empirically examines the occurrence of subjectless finite clauses in more than
500 early English texts, spanning nearly 850 years. On the basis of this
substantial data, Kristian A. Rusten re-evaluates previous conflicting claims
concerning the occurrence and distribution of null subjects in Old English. He
explores the question of whether the earliest stage of English can be
considered a canonical or partial pro-drop language, and provides an empirical
examination of the role played by central licensors of null subjects proposed
in the theoretical literature. The predictions of two important pragmatic
accounts of null arguments are also tested.

Throughout, the book builds its arguments primarily by means of powerful
statistical tools, including generalized fixed-effects and mixed-effects
logistic regression modelling. The volume is the most comprehensive
examination of null subjects in the history of English to date, and will be of
interest to syntacticians, historical linguists, and those working in English
and Germanic linguistics more widely.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Morphology
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)

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