Hoeing, Robert G.: Empty, Expletive, and Missing Subjects in German

This book argues against the Extended Projection principle. After an analysis of infinitivals and an investigation into the nature of empty categories, the book offers a more exact and consistent notion of the different types of empty categories and demonstrates that subjects are impossible in certain German sentences. One of the central claims of the Government-Binding theory of syntax is the Extended Projection Principle, which stipulates that every clause has a subject. For those clauses which lack an overt subject, a phonologically null, or «empty», category is presumed to occupy subject positon. 114 Seiten, gebunden (Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics; Vol. 11/Peter Lang Verlag 1994) Mängelexemplar/near mint

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