Cross-Linguistic Evidence and the Licensing of Implicit Arguments

This paper discusses the occurrence and the licensing of implicit object arguments, also referred to in the literature as null complements or understood arguments. Functionalist accounts (such as those by Groefsema and Németh T. which are couched in a relevance-theoretic framework) have repeated...

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Main Authors: Gergely Pethő, Eva Kardos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Oslo 2009-01-01
Series:Oslo Studies in Language
Online Access:https://journals.uio.no/osla/article/view/3