On the Syntax of Missing Objects : A Study with Special Reference to English, Polish and Hungarian.

Intro -- On the Syntax of Missing Objects -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Comparing and contrasting English, Polish, and Hungarian -- Structure of the current work -- Part I. A theory of missing objects -- Chapter 1. Missing objects in English, Polish, and Hungarian: Developing a theoretical analysis -- 1.1 Modelling missing objects: Previous approaches -- 1.1.1 Structures with missing objects are unergative -- 1.1.2 Missing objects are null variables bound by a null topic -- 1.1.3 Missing objects are null pronouns linked to a projection in the left periphery -- 1.1.4 Missing objects are pro -- 1.1.5 Missing objects are deleted full NPs/DPs -- 1.1.6 Missing objects are inside deleted VPs in verb-standing VP ellipsis -- 1.1.7 Missing objects are the feature complex {[D], [φ]} or {[φ]} -- 1.1.8 Missing objects are null bare nouns -- 1.1.9 Missing objects are represented by the nominal categorial feature -- 1.2 Lexical encoding of object drop -- 1.3 Present analysis: Conclusions from the data -- 1.4 Present analysis: Basic assumptions -- Chapter 2. Indefinite missing objects -- 2.1 A transitive analysis of indefinite object drop -- 2.2 Indefinite missing objects as n -- 2.2.1 Silence of n -- 2.2.2 Meaning of n -- 2.2.3 Indefinite missing objects and incorporation -- 2.2.4 Syntactic activity of the missing object -- 2.3 The manner and result components of verb meaning -- 2.4 Summary and extensions -- 2.4.1 Extensions: Arbitrary missing objects and control -- 2.4.2 Extensions: Read ø versus kan-shu 'read-book' -- Chapter 3. Definite missing objects -- 3.1 Definite missing objects as partial pronominal structures -- 3.2 The structure of pronouns in English, Polish, and Hungarian -- 3.3 Definite missing objects: Syntactic representation, silence, and interpretation.

3.3.1 Definite missing objects in English -- 3.3.2 Definite missing objects in Polish -- 3.3.3 Definite missing objects in Hungarian -- 3.3.3.1 Missing objects and verbal conjugation -- 3.3.3.2 [pl] marker as the blocking factor -- 3.3.3.3 First/second-person plural objects -- 3.3.4 An alternative: Null D in English and Polish -- 3.4 Definite missing objects as n or DP: Conclusion -- Part II. The phenomenon: Further empirical facts and theoretical considerations -- Chapter 4. Interpretive properties of missing objects -- 4.1 General introduction: Anaphoricity and definiteness -- 4.2 Non-anaphoric missing objects -- 4.2.1 Analytical possibilities: Lexical ambiguity -- 4.2.2 Analytical possibilities: Syntactic transitivity -- 4.2.3 Analytical possibilities: Antipassive -- 4.2.4 A special case: Human object -- 4.2.5 A special case: Characteristic property of the instrument -- 4.3 Anaphoric missing objects -- 4.3.1 Anaphoric missing objects in Polish -- 4.3.2 Anaphoric missing objects in Hungarian -- 4.4 A note on reflexives -- 4.5 Problems of interpretation: Win ø -- 4.6 Conclusion and outlook -- Chapter 5. Missing objects: The licensing and constraining factors -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Features of the verb -- 5.2.1 Selectional restrictions -- 5.2.2 Meaning components: Manner and result -- 5.3 Features of the predicate/sentence -- 5.3.1 Aktionsart, telicity, and grammatical aspect in English, Polish, and Hungarian: Some basic facts and observations -- 5.3.2 Interactions with object drop -- 5.4 Licensing of missing objects by syntactic and information-structural environment -- 5.4.1 Habituality, genericity, iterativity -- 5.4.2 Contrast, emphasis on the action, verb sequences, and stress on an element other than the object -- 5.5 Conclusion and outlook -- Chapter 6. Conclusions and extensions.

6.1 Missing objects: language similarity and language variation -- 6.1.1 Intra-linguistic variation -- 6.2 Missing objects and language acquisition -- References -- Language index -- Subject index.

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