TY - BOOK ID - 713028 TI - Information structure and agreement AU - Camacho Taboada, María Victoria AU - Jiménez-Fernández, Ángel L AU - Martín-González, Javier AU - Reyes-Tejedor, Mariano PY - 2013 SN - 9789027255808 9027255806 9789027273024 9027273022 1283989883 PB - Amsterdam Philadelphia DB - UniCat KW - Grammar KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Contrastive linguistics. KW - Focus (Linguistics) KW - Syntax. KW - Topic and comment. KW - Focus (Linguistics). KW - Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax. KW - Grammar, Comparative and general -- Topic and comment. KW - Contrastive linguistics KW - Languages & Literatures KW - Philology & Linguistics KW - Syntax KW - Topic and comment KW - Language and languages KW - Functional sentence perspective (Grammar) KW - Predicate and subject (Grammar) KW - Subject and predicate (Grammar) KW - Theme and rheme KW - Topic and comment (Grammar) KW - Subject and predicate KW - Discourse analysis KW - Linguistics KW - Philology KW - Grammar, Comparative and general Syntax UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:713028 AB - 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 ER -