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Der

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2008

Nomi Erteschik-Shir
Nomi Erteschik-Shir
Affiliation:
Dept. of Foreign Literatures and Linquistics, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
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Abstract

This paper presents a unified account of the distribution of Danish der within the framework of Government and Binding, analyzing der as a subject filler. The existence of empty subjects in cases of extraction out of embedded questions is explained by assuming proper government by AGR, not due to verbal inflection as in pro-drop languages, but rather due to the absorption by AGR of the features of an empty co-superscripted postverbal position.

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Research Article
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Nordic Journal of Linguistics , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , December 1985 , pp. 131 - 148
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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