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Informationen zum Autor Kyle Johnson is Professor in the Linguistics Department! University of Massachusetts! Amherst. Klappentext Ellipsis occurs when certain portions of a sentence are not spoken - for example ‘Mary has read more books than Bill has [read books]’ and ‘Jack called! but I don’t know where [he called] from’. These constructions interest linguists because the meaning of the sentence cannot be traced directly to the words it contains. This volume brings together a team of leading syntacticians to propose new and original solutions to some key questions in the study of ellipsis: What characterizes ellipsis? Under what conditions is it possible? What kinds of meanings are allowed to go unspoken? Drawing on a variety of authentic constructions! they examine ellipsis in the context of a range of syntactic phenomena such as binding! raising! anaphora! movement and scrambling. Making significant progress towards solving some central problems in syntactic theory! this cutting-edge volume will be of key interest to anyone working on theoretical syntax! semantics and psycholinguistics. 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....
