title: Formal modeling considerations for dependent clause with vacant subject in some Germanic languages
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metadata.value: Shumkov, Andrei
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2019-01-17T11:40:27Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2019-01-17T11:40:27Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Shumkov A. A. Formal modeling considerations for dependent clause with vacant subject in some Germanic languages. Scandinavian Philology, 2018, vol. 16, issue 2, pp. 293–307.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu21.2018.207
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/15271
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: Dependent clauses with vacant subject are considered in contraposition to independent
  clauses with vacant subject, which refer to interrogative sentences with unknown
  subject being sought by means of compulsory interrogative element. The languages
  particularly involved are English, Dutch and Swedish. Within the binomiality
  idea a formal modeling is undertaken to explain the syntactic nature of the formal particle
  in a subject. Main and secondary substantive / verbal sentence parts are assumed
  to consist of two parts — a space / time specifier or proto-specifier and a substantive
  / verbal semifinitive. The formal particle in a subject is associated with a strong or super-
  strong space specifier. In an independent and dependent interrogative sentence, as
  well as in a dependent narrative one, the fixing of a principal substantive semifinitive is
  postulated to start with a super-strong specifier. It is proposed that in independent / dependent
  clauses the use of the formal particle is stipulated by a possible opposition of
  a fixing verbal semifinitive against the pressure of outer space, as well as by informativity
  of an interrogative / conjunctive element. For dependent clauses it is also established
  that the formal particle in Danish and, sometimes in English, can fill (or accompany)
  the vacant strong substantive semifinitive and terminate its being vacant; Swedish and
  Norwegian use for this, instead of the formal particle, an adverbial-substantive unit.
  Filling the vacant strong substantive semifinitive makes the main sentence parts complete,
  and a dependent clause becomes more similar to an independent clause. It confirms
  the statement of the binomiality idea that a narrative and interrogative dependent
  clause is syntactically «in-between» a narrative independent clause and an interrogative
  independent clause. Still, the use of the vacant or non-vacant strong substantive semifinitive
  can be stipulated, like in Danish, by the informativity of the conjunctive element. In case of a high informativity of the conjunctive element the strong substantive
  semifinitive may remain vacant.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 16; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: linguistic modeling
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: syntax of Germanic languages
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: dependent clauses
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: null-subject
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: binomiality idea
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: semifinitive
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Formal modeling considerations for dependent clause with vacant subject in some Germanic languages
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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