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Pronominal doubling under predicate topicalization
- Source :
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Lingua . Apr2009, Vol. 119 Issue 4, p650-686. 37p. - Publication Year :
- 2009
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Abstract
- This paper examines the behaviour of VP topicalization in two unrelated languages, Hungarian and Spanish. It will show that in spite of the superficial similarity between the elements involved in such topicalization, the two languages employ a fundamentally different strategy in the derivation of these sentences. Hungarian fronts the VP material and spells it out in the form of a resumptive pronoun in the left periphery, in a mechanism similar to that described in Grohmann (2003). Spanish on the other hand generates the resumptive pronominal as an argument internal to the clause. This difference in the two derivations correlates with other differences in VP topicalization in the two languages. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00243841
- Volume :
- 119
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Lingua
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 36967164
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2007.11.007