http://hdl.handle.net/10278/2481 2013-05-20T20:28:06Z http://hdl.handle.net/10278/2536 Title: Rivista di Grammatica Generativa, vol. 32 (2007) 2006-12-31T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10278/2495 Title: Verbal Participles and the Prenominal Position in English Author⁄s: Laskova, Vasselina Abstract: In this paper, I will try to show that empirical data come in support of the analyses which assume that reduced relative clause elements and verbal elements in particular are allowed prenominally in English. First, I will discuss a group of participles, which I will call postmodified participles, namely, participles which are postmodified by adverbs. I will claim that these participles are real verbal participles, something that has been, to my knowledge, unnoticed so far. Basing myself upon data from Bulgarian, where postmodified participles can occur in front of the noun, I will suggest that their impossibility to occur in prenominal position in English is simply due to the right recursion restriction and not to their being verbal. I will provide also some semantic evidence showing that prenominally used participles are not necessarily “stative”. I will provide direct evidence from English that it is possible to isolate real verbal participles in prenominal position also in this language. Finally, I will show that the possibility to use the modifier very much prenominally, unequivocally suggests that reduced relative clauses (IPs) are allowed in this position. 2006-12-31T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10278/2494 Title: Subject omission in present-day written English Author⁄s: Haegeman, Liliane Abstract: This paper concentrates on certain registers in English in which the obligation for there to be a subject associated with a finite clause seems to be relaxed. This is notably the case in some variants of spoken English, here illustrated through dialogues taken from novels in (5)2, and in some written registers which tend to use abbreviated writing such as diary writing or note taking, which are illustrated in (6). 2006-12-31T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10278/2493 Title: Il soggetto nullo incassato del Portoghese Brasiliano Author⁄s: Guesser, Simone Abstract: Con questo paper si intende fare alcune riflessioni sull’analisi hyperraising proposta da Ferreira (2004). Due sono gli obiettivi: il primo è sottolineare che le assunzioni e le prove empiriche che supportano l’analisi molte volte non sono esenti da problematiche. Il secondo è mostrare che le peculiarità dei soggetti nulli incassati del PB non necessariamente suggeriscono il verificarsi di un hyperraising e possono essere analizzate con gli strumenti tradizionali della teoria generativa. Più specificatamente, mostreremo che esse possono essere analizzate seguendo l’analisi di Huang (1984), ovvero, assumendo che i soggetti nulli incassati siano una sorta di pro che, differentemente da lingue a soggetto nullo come l’italiano e lo spagnolo, non vengono identificati dalla flessione, ma ricevono l’identificazione dal NP c-comandante più vicino. 2006-12-31T23:00:00Z