Abstract
Virtually all recent studies of null pronouns follow Rizzi (1986) in assuming that null pronouns must meet a licensing condition and an identification condition. The majority of investigations of these two conditions have focused on null Subjects, for which elements of INFL are generally implicated in both licensing and identification.
I am grateful for comments and criticism to the audience at Indiana University. I am also grateful to audiences at the University of Illinois and the 1993 WECOL conference. Thanks for comments and advice to Evangeline Parsons Yazzie and Emmon Bach. This research was supported during the summer of 1992 by a Faculty Research Grant from the University of Massachusetts.
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Speas, M. (1996). Null Objects in Functional Projections. In: Rooryck, J., Zaring, L. (eds) Phrase Structure and the Lexicon. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, vol 33. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8617-7_8
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