Year: 2019
Type: dissertation
Abstract: This dissertation revisits the question of the syntactic and semantic status of pronouns, incorporating new syntactic, sociolinguistic, and pragmatic data to support an analysis of n-to-D head movement in the nominal domain.The support for pronouns originating in n comes from predicative pronouns, including pronominal relative clauses (1) and Barbara Citko, Alicia Beckford Wassink, and Edith Aldridge: Thank you for the chocolate and long talks and warmth and brilliance and kindndess that you have shared with me throughout this process.I could not have possibly dreamed of better mentors than you, each one of you individually and together.You have profoundly bettered my life much beyond the effect on my work.Thank you, thank you.Hayden Stern, love and light of my life, you are a brain genius for finding me in the middle of this and convincing me to have an extracurricular life and mind.You inspire me and you remind me to eat snacks and you make my non-syntax-related hours worthbeing awake and alive and present for.Thanks for marrying me, thanks for putting music and art and love into the dark corners of my life.My small flock of trans/nonbinary and affiliated linguists, thanks for finding me and being amazing friends in addition to your beautiful insight and help throughout this.
Author: Kirby Conrod
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3160616176