The Syntax Of Ellipsis
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| Author | : Lobke Aelbrecht |
| Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9027255326 |
This monograph presents a theory of ellipsis licensing in terms of Agree and applies it to several elliptical phenomena in both English and Dutch. The author makes two main claims: The head selecting the ellipsis site is checked against the head licensing ellipsis in order for ellipsis to occur, and ellipsis i.e., sending part of the structure to PF for non-pronunciation occurs as soon as this checking relation is established. At that point, the ellipsis site becomes inaccessible for further syntactic operations. Consequently, this theory explains the limited extraction data displayed by Dutch modals complement ellipsis as well as British English "do" These ellipses allow subject extraction out of the ellipsis site, but not object extraction. The analysis also extends to phenomena that do not display such a restricted extraction, such as sluicing, VP ellipsis, and pseudogapping. Hence, this work is a step towards a unified analysis of ellipsis."
| Author | : Francois Recanati |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 365 |
| Release | : 2010-08-31 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110227770 |
This volume brings together original papers by linguists and philosophers on the role of context and perspective in language and thought. Several contributions are concerned with the contextualism/relativism debate, which has loomed large in recent philosophical discussions. In a substantial introduction, the editors survey the field and map out the relevant issues and positions.
| Author | : Jeroen van Craenenbroeck |
| Publisher | : Oxford Handbooks |
| Total Pages | : 1147 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0198712391 |
This handbook is the first volume to provide a comprehensive, in-depth, and balanced discussion of ellipsis, a phenomena whereby expressions in natural language appear to be incomplete but are still understood. It explores fundamental questions about the workings of grammar and provides detailed case studies of inter- and intralinguistic variation.
| Author | : Jason Merchant |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Extraction (Linguistics). |
| ISBN | : 9780199243730 |
A primary goal of contemporary theoretical linguistics is to develop a theory of the correspondence between sound (or gesture) and meaning. This sound-meaning correspondence breaks down completely in the case of ellipsis, and yet various forms of ellipsis are pervasive in natural language:words and phrases which should be in the linguistic signal go missing. How this should be possible is the focus of Jason Merchant's investigation. He focuses on the form of ellipsis known as sluicing, a common feature of interrogative clauses, such as in 'Sally's out hunting - guess what!'; and'Someone called, but I can't tell you who'. It is the most frequently found cross-linguistic form of ellipsis. Dr Merchant studies the phenomenon across twenty-four languages, and attempts to explain it in linguistic and behavioural terms.
| Author | : Marcel den Dikken |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 1412 |
| Release | : 2013-07-25 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 1107354587 |
Syntax – the study of sentence structure – has been at the centre of generative linguistics from its inception and has developed rapidly and in various directions. The Cambridge Handbook of Generative Syntax provides a historical context for what is happening in the field of generative syntax today, a survey of the various generative approaches to syntactic structure available in the literature and an overview of the state of the art in the principal modules of the theory and the interfaces with semantics, phonology, information structure and sentence processing, as well as linguistic variation and language acquisition. This indispensable resource for advanced students, professional linguists (generative and non-generative alike) and scholars in related fields of inquiry presents a comprehensive survey of the field of generative syntactic research in all its variety, written by leading experts and providing a proper sense of the range of syntactic theories calling themselves generative.
| Author | : Susanne Winkler |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 309 |
| Release | : 2011-12-22 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110890429 |
Covering linguistic research on empty categories over more than three decades, this monograph presents the result of an in-depth syntactic and focus-theoretical investigation of ellipsis in generative grammar. The phenomenon of ellipsis most generally refers to the omission of linguistic material, structure and sound. The central aim of this book is to explain on the basis of linguistic theorizing of how it is possible that we understand more than we actually hear. The answer developed throughout this book is that ellipsis is an interface phenomenon which can only be explained on the basis of the complex interaction between syntax, semantics and information structure. Scholars of grammar and cognitive scientists will profit from reading this book.
| Author | : Mari Nygård |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : Discourse analysis |
| ISBN | : 9789027200396 |
Empirical sources -- Appendix -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 4 -- Index
| Author | : Winfried Lechner |
| Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 297 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 3110181185 |
Biographical note: Winfried Lechner is researcher at the Department of Linguistics, University of Tuebingen, Germany.
| Author | : Caroline Féry |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 993 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Computers |
| ISBN | : 0199642672 |
This book provides linguists with a clear, critical, and comprehensive overview of theoretical and experimental work on information structure. Leading researchers survey the main theories of information structure in syntax, phonology, and semantics as well as perspectives from psycholinguistics and other relevant fields. Following the editors' introduction the book is divided into four parts. The first, on theories of and theoretical perspectives on information structure, includes chapters on topic, prosody, and implicature. Part 2 covers a range of current issues in the field, including focus, quantification, and sign languages, while Part 3 is concerned with experimental approaches to information structure, including processes involved in its acquisition and comprehension. The final part contains a series of linguistic case studies drawn from a wide variety of the world's language families. This volume will be the standard guide to current work in information structure and a major point of departure for future research.
| Author | : Kerstin Schwabe |
| Publisher | : de Gruyter |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : |
Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory.
