Subject doubling in Finnish. The role of deficient pronouns

Anders Holmberg; Urpo Nikanne

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Subject doubling in Finnish. The role of deficient pronouns

Anders Holmberg, Urpo Nikanne

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Abstract

In colloquial Finnish finite clauses, the subject can be doubled by a pronoun. This pronoun has number but not person, and therefore can double a first or second person pronoun as long as number matches. The doubling pronoun is in SpecF(inite)P, the 'EPP-position', while the doubled subject remains within the TP, when it is not moved to SpecCP. Finnish also has subject trebling, with a second doubling pronoun occupying SpecCP. Doubling of a pronominal subject is shown to follow from the partial copying theory of Barbiers et al. (2007), in conjunction with a particular analysis of the internal structure of pronouns. Cross-dialectal and cross-linguistic variation as regards doubling is ascribed, at least in part, to a lexical difference: whether or not the lexicon includes deficient pronouns.

Original language	Undefined/Unknown
Title of host publication	Microvariations in Syntactic Doubling. Views from Global Though Leaders III
Editors	Rodney K. M. Hopson, Carol Camp-Yeakey, Sjef Barbiers, Olaf Koeneman, Marika Lekakou, Margreet van der Ham
Publisher	Emerald
Pages	325–350
Number of pages	25
ISBN (Electronic)	9781848550216
ISBN (Print)	9781848550209
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0092-4563(08)36011-5
Publication status	Published - 2008
MoE publication type	A3 Part of a book or another research book

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Subject doubling in Finnish. The role of deficient pronouns. / Holmberg, Anders; Nikanne, Urpo.
Microvariations in Syntactic Doubling. Views from Global Though Leaders III. ed. / Rodney K. M. Hopson; Carol Camp-Yeakey; Sjef Barbiers; Olaf Koeneman; Marika Lekakou; Margreet van der Ham. Emerald, 2008. p. 325–350.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Scientific › peer-review

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