Too weak to be pronounced : pro-drop and PF-LF mismatches in pronouns
Amato, Irene (Universitat de Berlin (Alemanya))

Date:	2024
Abstract:	In Gradient Harmonic Grammar (Smolensky & Goldrick 2016), syntactic strength is considered an inherent property of linguistic items. In this paper, I propose that syntactic strength plays a crucial role in pro-drop and in other phenomena that have often been related to a vague concept of "strength". I suggest that pro-drop results from failed lexicalization of weak pronouns in the presence of a strong T. Subject clitics of non-pro-drop languages instead stem from the strengthening of weak pronouns in the context of a weak T. This strength-based approach to pronouns can be also extended to the independent phenomenon of mismatches between strong forms and weak semantics of pronouns, which is problematic for standard accounts à la Cardinaletti & Starke 1999 and it is not accounted for by any other theory of pro-drop. In general, such an approach is a mere extension of what has been tacitly presupposed while talking about strength for pro-drop (Rizzi 1986a; Alexiadou & Anagnostopoulou 1998), and for other phenomena (see Cardinaletti & Starke 1999 for pronouns; Chomsky 2013, 2015; Cecchetto & Donati 2022 for labeling).
Note:	This project is an output of the DFG Reinhart Koselleck-Projekt Syntaktischer Strukturabbau (MU 1444/13-1)
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Syntactic strength ; Pro-drop ; Subject clitics ; PF-LF mismatches ; Gradient Harmonic Grammar
Published in:	Isogloss, Vol. 10 Núm. 3 (2024) , p. 1-34 (Articles) , ISSN 2385-4138

Adreça original: https://revistes.uab.cat/isogloss/article/view/v10-n3-amato
Adreça alternativa: https://raco.cat/index.php/isogloss/article/view/v10-n3-amato
DOI: 10.5565/rev/isogloss.323

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