31.2074, Books: Silently Structured Silent Argument: Sakamoto

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Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 19:30:54
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Silently Structured Silent Argument: Sakamoto

 


Title: Silently Structured Silent Argument 
Series Title: Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 259  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/la.259 


Author: Yuta Sakamoto

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261229 Pages: 266 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261229 Pages: 266 Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027261229 Pages: 266 Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027205490 Pages: 266 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027205490 Pages: 266 Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027205490 Pages: 266 Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

Theoretical linguistics in the generative tradition has payed much attention
to issues related to silence ‒ children know the syntax of silence despite the
fact that they do not have direct access to it throughout their language
acquisition process. One of the issues that have been hotly discussed
regarding silence in natural languages is whether it involves syntactic
structure or not. This book is concerned with a particular instance of silence
in natural languages, what is called radical pro-drop, showing that it is
silently structured on the basis of novel data from Japanese as well as
Chinese, Korean, Mongolian, and Turkish. The discussion in this book also has
consequences for the dichotomy between PF-deletion vs. LF-copying, shedding a
new light on the proper analysis of several syntactic phenomena in Japanese,
including wh-in-situ and control.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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