Obviation properties of the d-pronoun in Dutch
The present paper discusses a decisive difference in Dutch between the d (emonstrative)-pronoun and the p (ersonal)-pronoun. The d -pronoun is a grammatical device for focus-to-topic-shift. Van Kampen (2010) derived this from two properties of the d -pronoun , neither of them present in the p -pronoun. (i) The d -pronoun obviates as antecedent all arguments except the first preceding focus. (ii) The d -pronoun introduces the new topic of its sentence. The present paper derives three other properties of the d -pronoun. The d -pronoun allows a bound variable reading in certain complex CPs (Secti... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2012 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Linguistics in the Netherlands ; Linguistics in the Netherlands 2012 ; volume 29, page 68-81 ; ISSN 0929-7332 1569-9919 |
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John Benjamins Publishing Company
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Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27434812 |
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Link(s) : | http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/avt.29.06kam |