Contributors; Introduction; 1. Interactions of Scope and Ellipsis; 2. Ellipsis and Glue Languages; 3. An HPSG Account of Antecedent-Contained Ellipsis; 4. VP Ellipsis and The Minimalist Program: Some Speculations and Proposals; 5. V-Movement and VP Ellipsis; 6. Pseudogapping Puzzles; 7. Gapping, PF Merger, and Patterns of Partial Agreement; 8. Directionality of Movement in Ellipsis Resolution in English and Japanese; 9. VP Ellipsis: Toward a Dynamic, Structural Account; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.
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This volume contains essays on ellipsis - the omission of understood words or grammatical items from a sentence - and the closely related syntactic phenomena of conjunction and gapping. Ellipsis poses interesting challenges for linguists because speakers are expressing something that is not present in their words. This volume not only addresses the three perspectives resulting from recent research: Chomsky's syntactic Government and Binding approach, the semantic theories, and the processing accounts, but it also examines the cross-linguistic aspects of ellipsis by comparing the possibilities for a given type of elided structure in Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew, and in English. This volume will be of interest to both semanticists and syntacticians.
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Title
Fragments.
International Standard Book Number
0195123026
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Grammar, Comparative and general-- Ellipsis, Congresses.
Grammar, Comparative and general-- Ellipsis.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Grammar & Punctuation.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES-- Linguistics-- Syntax.
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LAN-- 006000
LAN-- 009060
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
415
Edition
22
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
P291
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3
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F7
1999eb
PERSONAL NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Benmamoun, Elabbas.
Lappin, Shalom.
CORPORATE BODY NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
SOAS Ellipsis Workshop(1996 :, University of London)
University of London., School of Oriental and African Studies.