The Syntactic Licensing of Ellipsis.

Author:   Lobke Aelbrecht (Ghent University)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
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9781282484955


Pages:   230
Publication Date:   01 January 2010
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This monograph presents a theory of ellipsis licensing in terms of Agree and applies it to several elliptical phenomena in both English and Dutch. The author makes two main claims: The head selecting the ellipsis site is checked against the head licensing ellipsis in order for ellipsis to occur, and ellipsis i.e., sending part of the structure to PF for non-pronunciation occurs as soon as this checking relation is established. At that point, the ellipsis site becomes inaccessible for further syntactic operations. Consequently, this theory explains the limited extraction data displayed by Dutch modals complement ellipsis as well as British English do: These ellipses allow subject extraction out of the ellipsis site, but not object extraction. The analysis also extends to phenomena that do not display such a restricted extraction, such as sluicing, VP ellipsis, and pseudogapping. Hence, this work is a step towards a unified analysis of ellipsis.

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Author:   Lobke Aelbrecht (Ghent University)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
ISBN:  

9781282484955


ISBN 10:   1282484958
Pages:   230
Publication Date:   01 January 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Electronic book text
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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