Chapter 4
Interpretive properties of missing objects
Article outline
- 4.1General introduction: Anaphoricity and definiteness
- 4.2Non-anaphoric missing objects
- 4.2.1Analytical possibilities: Lexical ambiguity
- 4.2.2Analytical possibilities: Syntactic transitivity
- 4.2.3Analytical possibilities: Antipassive
- 4.2.4A special case: Human object
- 4.2.5A special case: Characteristic property of the instrument
- 4.3Anaphoric missing objects
- 4.3.1Anaphoric missing objects in Polish
- 4.3.2Anaphoric missing objects in Hungarian
- 4.4A note on reflexives
- 4.5Problems of interpretation: Win ø
- 4.6Conclusion and outlook
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Notes