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The existing syntactic accounts of null arguments typically rely either on the specific licensing conditions for different types of empty categories such as pro and (topic-)bound variables, or else on different kinds of ellipsis. In trying to address the radical argument drop character of Catalan Sign Language (LSC), this paper critically reassesses the two main trends in the analysis of this phenomenon in East Asian languages and their extensions to American Sign Language (ASL). Both hybrid and uniform approaches to empty arguments turn out to be unable to account for the non-negligibl

Grammar --- Grammar, Comparative and general --- Contrastive linguistics. --- Focus (Linguistics) --- Syntax. --- Topic and comment. --- Focus (Linguistics). --- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax. --- Grammar, Comparative and general -- Topic and comment. --- Contrastive linguistics --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Syntax --- Topic and comment --- Language and languages --- Functional sentence perspective (Grammar) --- Predicate and subject (Grammar) --- Subject and predicate (Grammar) --- Theme and rheme --- Topic and comment (Grammar) --- Subject and predicate --- Discourse analysis --- Linguistics --- Philology --- Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax

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This paper highlights similarities between two classes of arguably non-canonical passives, namely 'deponent' verbs familiar from Latin, and 'inherent reflexive' verbs in Germanic and Romance, arguing that the latter are the counterparts of the former - notably, both classes of verbs are denominal/deadjectival. Building on the idea that overt morphological voice markings reflect feature distinctions associated with v0 in the syntax, I argue that the special 'unaccusative' morphology (i.e. reflexive or non-active) doesn't just bear on the absence of an external argument in the syntax, but

Grammar, Comparative and general --- Causal relations (Linguistics) --- Generative grammar. --- Grammar, Generative --- Grammar, Transformational --- Grammar, Transformational generative --- Transformational generative grammar --- Transformational grammar --- Psycholinguistics --- Causality relations (Linguistics) --- Causative relations (Linguistics) --- Relations, Causal (Linguistics) --- Causative (Linguistics) --- Functional sentence perspective (Grammar) --- Predicate and subject (Grammar) --- Subject and predicate (Grammar) --- Theme and rheme --- Topic and comment (Grammar) --- Focus (Linguistics) --- Passive voice --- Voice, Passive --- Passive voice. --- Topic and comment. --- Derivation --- Subject and predicate --- Syntax --- Voice --- Causal relations (Linguistics). --- Generative Grammatik. --- Passiv. --- Linguistics --- Philology