Referential Null Subjects in Early English
Kristian A. Rusten
2018 abe. · Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics 35. liburua · Oxford University Press
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This book offers a large-scale quantitative investigation of referential null subjects as they occur in Old, Middle, and Early Modern English. Using corpus linguistic methods, and drawing on five corpora of early English, it empirically examines the occurrence of subjectless finite clauses in more than 500 early English texts, spanning nearly 850 years. On the basis of this substantial data, Kristian A. Rusten re-evaluates previous conflicting claims concerning the occurrence and distribution of null subjects in Old English. He explores the question of whether the earliest stage of English can be considered a canonical or partial pro-drop language, and provides an empirical examination of the role played by central licensors of null subjects proposed in the theoretical literature. The predictions of two important pragmatic accounts of null arguments are also tested. Throughout, the book builds its arguments primarily by means of powerful statistical tools, including generalized fixed-effects and mixed-effects logistic regression modelling. The volume is the most comprehensive examination of null subjects in the history of English to date, and will be of interest to syntacticians, historical linguists, and those working in English and Germanic linguistics more widely.
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Kristian A. Rusten is Associate Professor of English Language at the Department of Language, Literature, Mathematics and Interpreting, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences. He was awarded his PhD in English Linguistics from the University of Bergen in 2016. His research interests include historical linguistics, corpus linguistics, quantitative methods and statistical analysis, and syntax. He has published in Transactions of the Philological Society and English Studies and, together with colleagues, in English Language and Linguistics and Journal of Germanic Linguistics.
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