Fragments: Studies in Ellipsis and Gapping

by Shalom Lappin (Editor), Elabbas Benmamoun (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195123029
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/28/1999
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.00(d)
Lexile:	1580L (what's this?)

Table of Contents

	Contributors	xi
	Introduction	3
1.	Interactions of Scope and Ellipsis	8
2.	Ellipsis and Glue Languages	32
3.	An HPSG Account of Antecedent-Contained Ellipsis	68
4.	VP Ellipsis and The Minimalist Program: Some Speculations and Proposals	98
5.	V-Movement and VP Ellipsis	124
6.	Pseudogapping Puzzles	141
7.	Gapping, PF Merger, and Patterns of Partial Agreement	175
8.	Directionality of Movement in Ellipsis Resolution in English and Japanese	193
9.	VP Ellipsis: Toward a Dynamic, Structural Account	227
	Index	291