A deletion account of referential null objects in Basque Spanish

• Autores: Almike Vázquez Lozares
• Localización: Points of Convergence in Romance Linguistics: Papers selected from the 48th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 48), Toronto, 25-28 April 2018 / coord. por Gabriela Alboiu, Ruth King, 2022, ISBN 9789027210845, págs. 97-110
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • I propose a deletion analysis for null D(irect) O(bject)s in the Spanish of the Basque Country, based on a D(efiniteness)-feature on DO clitics and on Basque-Spanish v. When the DO clitic has a D-feature, as is the case with lo(s)/la(s), its features form a proper subset of the features of v, and deletion of the clitic ensues in terms of a chain reduction à la Nunes (2004), as proposed in Roberts (2010). Importantly, DOs with human antecedents are not deleted because they undergo leísmo. I argue that le does not have a D-feature and, therefore, its features are not a proper subset of the features of v, thus precluding deletion.