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The Limits of Syntactic VariationEdited by Theresa Biberauer
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 132] 2008
► pp. 311–329
Edited by Theresa Biberauer
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 132] 2008
► pp. 311–329
Silent arguments without pro: The case of Basque
Basque is traditionally described as a three-way pro-drop language, a
paradigmatic instance of the positive setting of the pro-drop parameter. This
article investigates the phenomenon of silent arguments in Basque and proposes
a novel account of this phonological emptiness. It is argued that Basque silent
arguments are best analyzed as elided DPs. This account avoids the shortcomings
of the pro-drop analysis with respect to the licensing and interpretation effects
of silent arguments, and its interaction with information structure allows a
straightforward explanation of the distribution of overt and silent arguments.
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