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Subjects, Expletives, and the EPP Recent Titles in OXFORD STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE SYNTAX Richard Kayne, General Editor Particles: On the Syntax of Verb-Particle, XP-Adjunction in Universal Grammar: Triadic, and Causative Constructions Scrambling and Binding in Hindi-Urdu Marcel den Dikken Ayesha Kidwai The Polysynthesis Parameter Multiple Feature Checking and Mark C. Baker Grammatical Functions in Universal Grammar The Role of Inflection in Scandinavian Hiroyuki Ura Syntax Anders Holmberg and Christer Platzack The Higher Functional Field: Evidence from Northern Italian Dialects Clause Structure and Word Order in Cecilia Poletto Hebrew and Arabic: An Essay in Comparative Semitic Syntax The Syntax of Verb-Initial Languages Ur Shlonsky Edited by Andrew Camie and Eithne Guilfoyle Negation and Clausal Structure: A Comparative Study of Romance Parameters and Universals Languages Richard Kayne Raffaella Zanuttini Portuguese Syntax: New Comparative Studies Tense and Aspect: From Semantics to Edited by Joao Costa Morphosyntax Alessandra Giorgi and Fabio Pianesi Infinitive Constructions: A Syntactic Analysis of the Romance Languages Coordination Guido Mensching Janne Bondi Johannessen Subject Inversion in Romance and the Adverbs and Functional Heads: A Theory of Universal Grammar Cross-Linguistic Perspective Edited by Aafke Hulk and Jean-Yves Guglielmo Cinque Pollock The Feature Structure of Functional Subjects, Expletives, and the EP Categories Edited by Peter Svenonius Elabbas Benmamoun A Unified Theory of Verbal and Nominal A Handbook of Slavic Clitics Projections Steven Franks and Tracy Holloway King Yoshiki Ogawa Subjects, Expletives, and the EPP Edited by PETER SVENONIUS OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2002 OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Oxford New York Auckland Bangkok Buenos Aires Cape Town Chennai Dar es Salaam Delhi Hong Kong Instanbul Karachi Kolkata Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai Nairobi Sao Paulo Shanghai Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto and an associated company in Berlin Copyright © 2002 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Published by Oxford University Press, Inc. 198 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 www.oup.com Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Subjects, expletives, and the EPP / edited by Peter Svenonius. p. cm. — (Oxford studies in comparative syntax) Papers presented at a workshop held June 1997, University of Troms0. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: The que/qui-alternation and the distribution of expletives / Knut Tarald Taraldsen — Icelandic expletive constructions and the distribution of subject types / 0ystein Alexander Vangsnes — Expletives, subjects, and topics in Finnish / Anders Holmberg and Urpo Nikanne—The EPP in a topic-prominent language / Katalin E. Kiss — The extended projection principle as a condition on the tense dependency / Ian Roberts and Anna Roussou — Parameters of subject inflection in Italian dialects / M. Rita Manzini and Leonardo M. Savoia — Subject positions and the placement of adverbials / Peter Svenonius. ISBN 0-19-514224-1; 0-19-514225-X (pbk.) 1. Grammar, Comparative and general—Syntax—Congresses. I. Svenonius, Peter. II. Series. P291 .S83 2002 415—dc21 2001036744 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 42 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper Contents Contributors vii 1. Introduction 3 PETER SVENONIUS 2. The Que/Qui Alternation and the Distribution of Expletives 29 KNUT TARALD TARALDSEN 3. Icelandic Expletive Constructions and the Distribution of Subject Types 43 0YSTEIN ALEXANDER VANGSNES 4. Expletives, Subjects, and Topics in Finnish 71 ANDERS HOLMBERG AND URPO NIKANNE 5. The EPP in a Topic-Prominent Language 107 KATALIN E. Kiss 6. The Extended Projection Principle as a Condition on the Tense Dependency 125 IAN ROBERTS AND ANNA Roussou 7. Parameters of Subject Inflection in Italian Dialects 157 M. RITA MANZINI AND LEONARDO M. SAVOIA 8. Subject Positions and the Placement of Adverbials 201 PETER SVENONIUS Index 243 This page intentionally left blank Contributors ANDERS HOLMBERG University of Troms0 KATALIN E. Kiss Linguistic Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences RITA M. MANZINI University of Florence URPO NIKANNE University of Oslo IAN ROBERTS University of Stuttgart (currently at University of Cambridge) ANNA Roussou University of Bangor (currently at University of Cyprus) LEONARDO M. SAVOIA University of Florence PETER SVENONIUS University of Troms0 KNUT TARALD TARALDSEN University of Troms0 0YSTEIN ALEXANDER VANGSNES University of Bergen This page intentionally left blank Subjects, Expletives, and the EPP
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