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03425aam a2200421Ii 4500 001 CE2F8EC868DD11EA9C5A9E4D97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200318010024 008 180426s2019 enka b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9780198808237 020 $a 0198808232 035 $a (OCoLC)1032282129 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d ERASA $d UKMGB $d OCLCF $d CUV $d OCLCO $d OCL $d OCLCQ $d SFB $d SILO 050 4 $a PE225 $b .R87 2019 082 04 $a 410 100 1 $a Rusten, Kristian A., $e author. 245 10 $a Referential null subjects in Early English / $c Kristian A. Rusten. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Oxford, United Kingdom : $b Oxford University Press, $c 2019. 300 $a xviii, 241 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 490 1 $a Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; $v 35 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-238) and index. 520 8 $a This book offers a large-scale quantitative investigation of referential null subjects as they occur in Old, Middle, and Early Modern English. Using corpus linguistic methods, and drawing on five corpora of early English, it empirically examines the occurrence of subjectless finite clauses in more than 500 early English texts, spanning nearly 850 years. On the basis of this substantial data, Kristian A. Rusten re-evaluates previous conflicting claims concerning the occurrence and distribution of null subjects in Old English. He explores the question of whether the earliest stage of English can be considered a canonical or partial pro-drop language, and provides an empirical examination of the role played by central licensors of null subjects proposed in the0theoretical literature. The predictions of two important pragmatic accounts of null arguments are also tested. Throughout, the book builds its arguments primarily by means of powerful statistical tools, including generalized fixed-effects and mixed-effects logistic regression modelling. The volume is the most comprehensive examination of null subjects in the history of English to date, and will be of interest to syntacticians, historical linguists, and those working in English and Germanic linguistics more widely. 505 0 $a 1. Introduction -- 2. Referential null subjects in Old English -- 3. Do Anglian dialects of Old English have a partial pro-drop property? -- 4. The morphosyntactic characteristic of null subjects in Old English -- 5. What could have sanctioned null subjects in Old English? -- 6. The long-term diachrony of referential null subjects in early English -- 7. Conclusions -- References -- Index. 650 0 $a English language $x Null subject. 650 0 $a English language $x History. 650 0 $a Historical linguistics. 650 0 $a English language $y Old English, ca. 450-1100 $x Syntax. 650 0 $a English language $x Subjectless constructions. 650 7 $a English language $x Subjectless constructions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00911833 650 7 $a English language $x Syntax. $x Syntax. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01711326 650 7 $a English language. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00910920 650 7 $a Historical linguistics. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00958134 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 830 0 $a Oxford studies in diachronic and historical linguistics ; $v 35. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220317025804.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CE2F8EC868DD11EA9C5A9E4D97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search