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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Peng, Ping

Titel

A syntactic study on empty functional categories

Ort / Verlag

ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

Quelle

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Translation from original language as provided by authorEmpty categories (ECs), proposed by Chomsky during the late 1970s and early 1980s, are an important issue in the theory of generative grammar. The research on ECs is one of the focal topics in current theoretical linguistics since it is quite enlightening and helpful for making further efforts to determine properties of syntactic and semantic representations and the generative rules of them. So far, most researches on ECs are involved in the field of lexical categories, but those in the functional categories field are few, even no research has been made at home. Hence, within the framework of Chomsky's ECs, based on Radford (2000, 2004, 2006), this thesis attempts to show that the phenomena of ECs exist not only in lexical categories field, but also in functional categories field, e.g., empty tenses (Ts), empty complementisers (Cs) and empty determiners (Ds). There are both empirical and theoretical evidence for the existence of empty functional categori