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The syntax and semantics of the weak locative.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The syntax and semantics of the weak locative./
Author:	Tortora, Christina Maria.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1997,
Description:	224 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 59-12, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International59-12A.
Subject:	Linguistics. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9819176
ISBN:	9780591708011

The syntax and semantics of the weak locative.
Tortora, Christina Maria.

The syntax and semantics of the weak locative. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1997 - 224 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 59-12, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Delaware, 1997.

Drawing primarily on evidence from a Northern Italian dialect, this thesis proposes a non-expletive analysis of the locative subject which occurs with certain unaccusatives in some languages (e.g., $\\underline{There}$ have arrived four women). Chapter 2 discusses the lexical semantics of unaccusative verbs of inherently directed motion (VIDMs), and shows that a semantic distinction can be made within this class of verbs: some VIDMs entail the existence of a reached location-goal, while some do not. Chapter 3 shows that in Borgomanerese (a Northern Italian dialect), only GOAL-entailing VIDMs occur with a discontinuous sequence of two locative clitics (ngh ... ghi). While these locatives exhibit expletive-like behavior, I argue that they are the overt reflex of a phonologically null locative morpheme (pro-loc), optionally selected by GOAL-entailing VIDMs as a second internal argument, the weak locative goal argument (WLGA). The analysis of pro-loc as a 'weak' morpheme (in the sense of Cardinaletti & Starke (to appear)) which obligatorily occupies subject position places the behavior of pro-loc in the greater context of the general behavior of weak pronouns. Chapter 4 shows that Italian also has an optionally projected (phonologically null) WLGA; this hypothesis allows an explanation of certain facts regarding the distribution of subjects, telicity, and the interpretations of goals vs. sources. The WLGA analysis suggests a modification of Moro's (1993; 1997) analysis of Italian unaccusatives. In Chapter 5 I show that an expletive analysis of English there is undesirable, and while Moro's (1993; 1997) predicate analysis eliminates some of the problems raised by the expletive analysis, the WLGA analysis of there is to be preferred. Many of the characteristic properties of there-sentences (such as there's need for Case, the presence of an i-subject, the ban on first and second person i-subjects, and the speaker-oriented interpretation of there-sentences) are explained. I also provide an analysis of the feature composition of weak there (and pro-loc) which explains the expletive-like behavior of weak there. Chapter 6 concludes with some speculations on the nature of expletives in other languages, and on how the WLGA analysis bears on a discourse theoretic analysis of there-sentences.

ISBN: 9780591708011Subjects--Topical Terms:

524476
Linguistics.
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