Fragments : studies in ellipsis and gapping

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Fragments : studies in ellipsis and gapping

edited by Shalom Lappin, Elabbas Benmamoun

Oxford University Press, 1999

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All papers except one presented at the SOAS Ellipsis Workshop held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in September 1996

Includes bibliographical references and index

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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.

Table of Contents

  • Notes on Contributors
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Interactions of Scope and Ellipsis
  • Stuart Shieber, Fernando Pereira, and May Dalrymple
  • 3. Ellipsis and Glue Languages
  • Richard Crouch
  • 4. An HPSG Account of Antecedent Contained Ellipsis
  • Shalom Lappin
  • VP Ellipsis and the Minimalist Program: Some Speculations and Proposals
  • Anne Lobeck
  • V Movement and VP Ellipsis
  • Edit Doron
  • Pseudogapping Puzzles
  • Howard Lasnik
  • Gapping, PF Merger and Patterns of Partial Agreement
  • Joseph Aoun and Elabbas Benmamoun
  • Directionality of Movement in Ellipsis Resolution in English and Japanese
  • Jun Abe and Hiroto Hoshi
  • VP Ellipsis: Towards a Dynamic, Structural Account
  • Ruth Kempson, Wilfried Meyer-Viol, and Dov Gabbay

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