Null Referential Subjects in Övdalian

• Published in: Nordic journal of linguistics Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 231 - 267
• Main Author: Rosenkvist, Henrik
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.12.2010
• Subjects: Affixes; Agreement; Context; Germanic languages; Grammar; Humaniora och konst; Humanities; Humanities and the Arts; Identification; Languages; Languages and Literature; Linguistics; null subjects; Pro Drop Parameter; Pronouns; Scandinavian Languages; Språk och litteratur; Syntactic analysis; Syntactic Structures; syntax; Övdalian; syntax; null subjects; Övdalian

This article is concerned with the description and analysis of Övdalian referential null subjects. A general background to Övdalian is provided together with the syntactic restrictions on the possible null subjects (wįð ‘we’ and ið ‘you’). Interestingly, these null subjects in Övdalian do not appear...