Deriving syntactic representations in Finnish

A comprehensive, coordinated analysis of Finnish syntax is attempted in this dissertation. The following areas receive special attention: word order, grammatical case marking, null subjects, binding, and non-finite constructions. The basic framework used is the Government-Binding Theory, but a numbe...

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Main Author: Vainikka, Anne Marjatta
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 1989
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9011811