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1 online resource (xiii, 298 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
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. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Contents |
Contributors; Introduction; 1. Interactions of Scope and Ellipsis; 2. Ellipsis and Glue Languages; 3. An HPSG Account of Antecedent-Contained Ellipsis; 4. VP Ellipsis and The Minimalist Program: Some Speculations and Proposals; 5. V-Movement and VP Ellipsis; 6. Pseudogapping Puzzles; 7. Gapping, PF Merger, and Patterns of Partial Agreement; 8. Directionality of Movement in Ellipsis Resolution in English and Japanese; 9. VP Ellipsis: Toward a Dynamic, Structural Account; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Ellipsis -- Congresses.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Ellipsis. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Lappin, Shalom.
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Benmamoun, Elabbas.
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University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies.
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SOAS Ellipsis Workshop (1996 : University of London)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fragments. New York : Oxford University Press, 1999 0195123026 (DLC) 98026311 (OCoLC)39290499 |
| ISBN |
1423760115 (electronic book) |
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9781423760115 (electronic book) |
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1280470917 |
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9781280470912 |
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0195123026 (Cloth) |
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9780195123029 |
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1602563063 |
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9781602563063 |
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