Topics in Ellipsis

Informationen zum Autor Kyle Johnson is Professor in the Linguistics Department! University of Massachusetts! Amherst. Klappentext This book looks at some central problems and questions in the study of ellipsis, whereby certain portions of a sentence are unspoken. Zusammenfassung Ellipsis occurs when certain portions of a sentence are unspoken - for example 'Jack called! but I don't know where [he called] from'. This volume proposes new and original solutions to some key questions in the study of ellipsis! making progress towards solving some central problems in syntactic and semantic theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Introduction Kyle Johnson; 2. VP Ellipsis and constraints on interpretation Daniel Hardt; 3. Direct compositionality and variable-free semantics: the case of antecedent contained deletion Pauline Jacobson; 4. The view of QR from ellipsis Kyle Johnson; 5. Argument contained ellipsis Chris Kennedy; 6. Variable island repair under ellipsis Jason Merchant; 7. On binding scope and ellipsis scope Winfried Lechner; 8. The silent content of bound variable pronouns Uli Sauerland; 9. A step-by-step guide to ellipsis resolution Satoshi Tomioka; 10. Shared constituents and linearisation Chris Wilder.

Product details

• Authors: Kyle Johnson
• Assisted by: Kyle Johnson (Editor), Johnson Kyle (Editor), Johnson Kyle (Editor)
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.03.2010
• EAN: 9780521131049
• ISBN: 978-0-521-13104-9
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, Psycholinguistics, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Language acquisition, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc