Null arguments in Old Norwegian: interaction between pronouns and the functional categories of the clause
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Kinn, K
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In this paper I propose a new analysis of null arguments in Old Norwegian. I argue that the option of null realization in Old Norwegian correlates with a distinction between φ P and DP pronouns in the sense of Déchaine & Wiltschko (2002), and that this distribution can be captured by a version of pronoun deletion (Roberts 2010b). On a more general, theoretical level, I argue that both the structure of pronouns and that of the functional domains C, T and v influence the null argument properties of a language. Thus, null arguments, but also
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Norwegian, syntax, syntactic variation, historical linguistics, null arguments
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Linguistic Variation
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2211-6834
2211-6842
2211-6842
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17
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John Benjamins Publishing Company
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European Research Council (269752)
This paper is partially funded by the European Research Council Advanced Grant No. 269752 “Rethinking Comparative Syntax.”