Beyond Coding and Control: Leakage, Categorization and Blocking in the Definition of the English Subject
This paper offers a non-intuitive definition of the English subject by discussing Keenan's coding and control properties and by contending that leakage, blocking properties (co-referentiality, omission of the relative and question target) and categorization must also be taken into account in t...
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Universidad de Zaragoza
1998-12-01
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| Series: | Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies |
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This paper offers a non-intuitive definition of the English subject by discussing Keenan's coding and control properties and by contending that leakage, blocking properties (co-referentiality, omission of the relative and question target) and categorization must also be taken into account in the definition of this grammatical function. The consideration of leakage and blocking properties allows for a cross-theoretical approach to this syntactic phenomenon that may modify Keenan's hierarchy of subject properties and the hierarchy of syntactic functions of Keenan and Comrie.
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| spelling | doaj-art-b933a5b1b6a04355b396b9e2e16fd60c2025-08-20T01:58:19ZengUniversidad de ZaragozaMiscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies1137-63682386-48341998-12-011910.26754/ojs_misc/mj.199811016Beyond Coding and Control: Leakage, Categorization and Blocking in the Definition of the English SubjectJavier Martín Arista0Universidad de La Rioja This paper offers a non-intuitive definition of the English subject by discussing Keenan's coding and control properties and by contending that leakage, blocking properties (co-referentiality, omission of the relative and question target) and categorization must also be taken into account in the definition of this grammatical function. The consideration of leakage and blocking properties allows for a cross-theoretical approach to this syntactic phenomenon that may modify Keenan's hierarchy of subject properties and the hierarchy of syntactic functions of Keenan and Comrie. https://papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.php/misc/article/view/11016 |
| spellingShingle | Javier Martín Arista Beyond Coding and Control: Leakage, Categorization and Blocking in the Definition of the English Subject Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies |
| title | Beyond Coding and Control: Leakage, Categorization and Blocking in the Definition of the English Subject |
| title_full | Beyond Coding and Control: Leakage, Categorization and Blocking in the Definition of the English Subject |
| title_fullStr | Beyond Coding and Control: Leakage, Categorization and Blocking in the Definition of the English Subject |
| title_full_unstemmed | Beyond Coding and Control: Leakage, Categorization and Blocking in the Definition of the English Subject |
| title_short | Beyond Coding and Control: Leakage, Categorization and Blocking in the Definition of the English Subject |
| title_sort | beyond coding and control leakage categorization and blocking in the definition of the english subject |
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