30.377, Books: There is more: Wesseling

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Subject: 30.377, Books: There is more: Wesseling

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Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 15:42:41
From: J. van Duijn Genet [lot at uva.nl]
Subject: There is more: Wesseling

 


Title: There is more 
Subtitle: Variation in expletive constructions in Dutch 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/there-is-more-variation-in-expletive-constructions-in-dutch 


Author: Franca Wesseling

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933004 Pages: 197 Price: Europe EURO 31.00


Abstract:

This thesis is concerned with syntactic properties of the Dutch expletive
pronoun er, presenting an in-depth study into expletive clauses in Dutch.
For these constructions, it has not been established what the expletive
pronoun
contributes to the clause. This dissertation argues that the expletive pronoun
er (and its variants) is not devoid of meaning, but that it contains a
locative feature. Written within the Chomskyan framework of generative syntax,
it analyzes expletive pronouns in Dutch as structures with an articulated
internal syntax, which project a locative feature. Furthermore, it
demonstrates that the verbal head in Dutch can be valued by a locative
feature, in addition to a Tense feature and Phi-features. This analysis is
based on two case studies consisting of newly collected data from hundreds of
speakers of Dutch. The first investigates the structure of impersonal passive
constructions, and the second focuses on variation in wh-extraction clauses.

This book is of interest to linguists working on the Dutch pronoun er,
expletive clauses, the internal structure of pronouns, impersonal passive
constructions, and Dutch wh-clauses.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)


Written In: English  (eng)

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