Pronominal Empty Categories In Gamo

In this thes is, the pro nomina l empty ca tego ri es of Gaillo arc dl sc lI ss" d Thernprinciples of thc GB Theory al'e relied on to iden tify the distribut ion amirninterpretation of pronominal empty categori es in the language.rnGamo is found to bc a pro-drop lan guage as subj ect NPs can be covc rt in, tensedrnclause. The covert NP subj ects, pro, can be recovered from subject NP aglcemcn trnelements attached on verbs. It, on the other han d, is argued that objec t NPs are notrnallowed to b e covert. The absence of object NP AGR clements is the ca use forrnthi s. Moreover, nominal feat ures are absent in Gamo subordinate clall ses, ,1 hi ch inrnturn r estrict the presence 0 fpro in a complement clau se except the relal'l e andrnpa rti cipi al clau ses. !t is al so discussc;d that pro can semantica lly int e q)l' ~ t ccl asrndefi ni te ly or arbitrary based on the presence or abscnce of AGR elements. As thcrndiscuss ion of the analv3 is revea ls Gamo pro fills in a theta or a non- theta po:.iri on.rnThe other type of pronominal empty category, PRO, occurs in the subj ect rnsiti nnrnof infinite clauses. Its content is rccovel'ed when an antecedent Ip or an Illp li cltrnargument that is believed to have the sta tus of pro is conside red.

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