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Publication details [#29942]

Huang, Yan. 1995. On null subjects and null objects in generative grammar. Linguistics 33 (6) : 1081–1123.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
ISBN
0024-3949

Annotation

This paper reviews the phenomenology and the diverse generative analyses of null subjects and objects and outlines a neo-Gricean pragmatic approach to the identification of (referential) null subjects and objects in languages like Old Icelandic, Chinese and Imbabura Quechua.