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Author:   R. Hendrick
Publisher:   Kluwer Academic Publishers Group
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Edition:   1988 ed.
Volume:   14
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.320kg
ISBN:  

9781556080661

ISBN 10:   1556080662
Pages:   285
Publication Date:   31 October 1988
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1 Introduction.- 1.1. The Descriptive and Theoretical Goals.- 1.2. An Overview of Government Binding Theory.- 1.3. An Overview of the Major Results of This Study.- 2 Celtic Agreement, the Avoid Pronoun Principle, and Binding Theory.- 2.1. Introduction.- 2.2. Breton Agreement Markers Determined by the Avoid Pronoun Principle.- 2.3. Generalizing the Analysis of Breton Agreement to Welsh.- 2.4. Evidence from the Binding Theory: Breton and Welsh Have a Null AGR.- 2.5. AGR as a SUBJECT for the Binding Theory.- 3 Raising and Passivization in Breton: An Argument for Anaphoric Traces.- 3.1. The Theoretical Status of Anaphoric Traces.- 3.2. The Breton Raising to Subject Construction.- 3.3. Raising Structures Parallel Passive Structures.- 3.4. Breton Raising and Pseudopassive: Further Implications.- 3.5. Conclusion.- 4 PRO-INFL and Reduced Structures.- 4.1. Reduced Structures Have Missing INFLs.- 4.2. Some INFLs Missing in Welsh and English Are PRO-INFL.- 4.3. Corroborating Evidence for the PRO-INFL Analysis.- 4.4. Contraction and Reduced Structures.- 4.5. A Competing Analysis.- 4.6. Breton is Consistent with the PRO-INFL Analysis.- 5 Government and the Connection Between Relative Pronouns, Complementizers and Subjacency.- 5.1. Introduction.- 5.2. Relative Pronouns in English.- 5.3. Relative Pronouns Are Pronominal Anaphors.- 5.4. Welsh and Breton Lack Relative Pronouns.- 5.5. Competing Analyses and Other Arguments.- 5.6. Conclusion.- 6 The Interaction of Government Theory with Synthetic Agreement.- 6.1. Introduction.- 6.2. The ECP Gives a Unified Treatment of Complementizers and Agreement in Welsh Movement Structures.- 6.3. Two Asymmetries in Breton and Welsh Extraction.- 6.4. Welsh and Breton Extraction from Negatives.- 6.5. Competing Analyses and Arguments.- 6.6. Subject-Object Asymmetries at LF and the ECP.- 6.7. Conclusion.- References.- Index of Languages.- Index of Names.

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