Difference between revisions of "Empty categories"
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− | Empty objects of prepositions: in this case we follow the [http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~lang22/YCOE/doc/annotation/YcoeRef.htm#prep_empty_object guidelines of the York Corpus of Old English Prose (YCOE)]. | + | Empty objects of prepositions: in this case we follow the [http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~lang22/YCOE/doc/annotation/YcoeRef.htm#prep_empty_object guidelines of the York Corpus of Old English Prose (YCOE)]. See also [[Particles]]. |
Revision as of 16:42, 26 July 2010
Empty categories
- Pied piping
- Missing copula
- Expletives (*exp*): Note that (NP-SBJ *exp*) is not used in the Icelandic corpus for the experiencers of known quirky-case-verbs; see the documentation on Quirky Case. [EFS: athuga hvað maður gerir við (þó pro/exp hásumar væri) en (það rigndi í gær) er bara með venjulegt NP-SBJ]. Note that in early (Old Icelandic) texts, it may be difficult to distinguish between *exp* and *pro* in cases where there is an empty subject and it has a roughly impersonal (i.e. "maður") interpretation. In searches where you want to include all such sentences or all impersonals in early texts, it is wise to include both *exp* and *pro* in your searches.
*arb*: arbitrary PRO in the IP-INF complements of inherent ECM verbs.
*pro*: other empty subjects. Note that in early (Old Icelandic) texts, it may be difficult to distinguish between *exp* and *pro* in cases where there is an empty subject and it has a roughly impersonal (i.e. "maður") interpretation. In searches where you want to include all such sentences or all impersonals in early texts, it is wise to include both *exp* and *pro* in your searches.
- Topicalization or stylistic fronting of quantifiers
Empty objects of verbs: not indicated in annotation.
Empty objects of prepositions: in this case we follow the guidelines of the York Corpus of Old English Prose (YCOE). See also Particles.