Fragments - Studies in Ellipsis and Gapping

Zusatztext This collection approaches all the most thorny questions in a coherent and interesting way ... the contributors are well-respected. Klappentext This volume contains essays on ellipsis -- the omission of understood words from a sentence -- and the closely related phenomena of gapping. This volume presents work by leading researchers on syntactic! semantic and computational aspects of ellipsis. The chapters bring together a variety of theoretical perspectives and examine a range of cross-linguistic phenomena involving ellipsis in Japanese! Arabic! Hebrew! and in English. This volume will be of interest to syntacticians! semanticists! computational linguists! and cognitive scientists. Zusammenfassung A collection of essays on ellipsis and the related syntactic phenomena of conjunction and gapping. The papers address different perspectives and examine cross-linguistic aspects of ellipsis by comparing possibilities for a given type of elided structure in several languages.

List 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

Product details

• Authors: Shalom (Professor of Linguistics Lappin, Shalom Benmamoun Lappin
• Assisted by: Elabbas Benmamoun (Editor), Elabbas (Lecturer in Liguistics Benmamoun (Editor), Benmamoun Elabbas (Editor), Shalom Lappin (Editor), Shalom (Professor of Linguistics Lappin (Editor), Lappin Shalom (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.04.1999
• EAN: 9780195123029
• ISBN: 978-0-19-512302-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Oxford University Press
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Psycholinguistics, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc