By Edward L. Keenan
This selection of 15 articles displays Edward Keenan’s long-standing examine pursuits within the comparative syntax of the languages of the realm. It comprises seminal ‘foundation’ articles, Noun word Accessibility and common Grammar (with Bernard Comrie) and Towards a common Definition of ‘Subject of’. many of the different articles have seemed in quite a few quite inaccessible areas, and so this ebook brings jointly for the 1st time a wide physique of labor aiding the examine instructions taken within the starting place articles. additionally, one article of a psycholinguistic variety was once in particular ready for this volume.
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3. Absolutives normally precede ergatives in simplex sentences (p. 291). 4. Only absolutives can be coreferentially deleted by operations like Equi and Conjunction Reduction (pp. 73, 67). To coreferentially delete an ergative NP, it must first be advanced to an absolutive. 5. It appears that certain demonstratives, always definite and presupposing reference - a characteristic property of subjects are restricted to absolutive positions (p. 218). 6. In the few cases where we can tell, absolutives appear to control reflexives.
Noun Phrase Accessibility and Universal Grammar n positions on the AH except that of objects of comparison. Thus In French we cannot relativise lejeune homme In (27a): (27) a. Marie est plus grande que le jeune homme. ’ b. ٠le jeune homme que que Marie est plus grande ‘the young man than whom Marie is bigger’ The same situation holds in Spanish, German, and Romanian (nonparticipial strategy, in each case). 3,6 Subject - Object o f Comparison. Few languages that distinguish objects of comparison from direct objects or oblique NPs permit them to be relativised.