Pleonastics and the interpretation of pronouns

L'A. presente une theorie des relations sujet-predicats expliquant pourquoi l'occurrence des pleonastiques est reduites a la position sujet. Les pleonastiques sont percus comme l'utilisation par defaut de pronoms minimaux denotant un objet semantique nul et sans propriete. Le fait que quelques positions soient obligatoirement occupees par des pleonastiques est explique le principe d'Interpretation Pleine. L'A. montre egalement qu'il n'existe pas de pleonastique objet

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