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EnglishThe syntax of Cimbrian, a Germanic heritage language spoken in the North-East of Italy, is at a very peculiar developmental stage: on the one hand it has lost the V2 linear restriction, but still maintains both pronominal subject inversion (Vfin-pron) and a residual word order asymmetry (main versus embedded word order pattern); on the other, it is characterized by both ‘free’ subject inversion (VP DP) and the systematic violation of the ‘that-trace’ filter, but does not allow any kind of null subject. This very specific mixture of both V2- and pro-drop properties gives us an opportunity to revisit the traditional assumption that Germanic V2 (i.e.: word order restriction due to mandatory Vfin to C movement in the root context) is incompatible with full pro-drop. On the basis of the Cimbrian data, we propose that the development of pro-drop crucially depends on the loss of V-to-Fin movement and, consequently, on the lowering of structural subject agreement within TP so that the whole complex process of feature sharing (KEEP, SHARE, DONATE) between C and I is restructured, changing from a C-dominant system to an I-dominant system.
Developing pro-drop: the case of Cimbrian / Bidese, Ermenegildo; Tomaselli, Alessandra. - STAMPA. - (2018), pp. 52-69.
| Titolo: | Developing pro-drop: the case of Cimbrian |
| Autori: | Bidese, Ermenegildo; Tomaselli, Alessandra |
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| Titolo del volume contenente il saggio: | Null Subjects in Generative Grammar: a Synchronic and Diachronic Perspective |
| Luogo di edizione: | Oxford |
| Casa editrice: | Oxford University Press |
| Anno di pubblicazione: | 2018 |
| ISBN: | 9780198815853 |
| Handle: | http://hdl.handle.net/11572/98330 |
| Citazione: | Developing pro-drop: the case of Cimbrian / Bidese, Ermenegildo; Tomaselli, Alessandra. - STAMPA. - (2018), pp. 52-69. |
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