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Overview"This book presents a cross-linguistic investigation of the behaviour of negation in gapping sentences. Sophie Repp focusses on German and English with reference to Dutch, Japanese, Polish, Russian, and Slovak. She shows that these languages exhibit important differences in the interaction of gapping and negation and further that no account in the literature explains why this should be. Dr Repp also argues that the precise interpretation of an elided negation depends on varying combinations of syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and prosodic factors. Illustrating her argument by the interpretation of the negation in examples such as ""Pete hasn't got a video and John a DVD"", ""Pete didn't clean the whole flat and John laze around all afternoon"", and ""To Mary, Pete didn't say anything and to Sue, only that he was hungry"", Dr Repp questions a basic assumption in the analysis of gapping: that the meaning of the two conjuncts must be parallel in the elided material. This leads her to a wide-ranging discussion of the interpretation of scope and the nature of negation. She then proposes a syntactic analysis that both takes into account the interaction of the grammatical interfaces and is at the same time compatible with more general assumptions of current generative theory. She concludes by considering the implications of her findings for linguistic theory more generally." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sophie Repp (, Humboldt University)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Volume: 22 Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.30cm Weight: 0.452kg ISBN: 9780199543618ISBN 10: 0199543615 Pages: 282 Publication Date: 22 January 2009 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: The Syntax of Clausal Negation: The Distributed Readings in Main Verb Gapping 3: The RIght Kind of Contrast: Narrow Scope Readings 4: Negation and the Speech Act 5: Finiteness in Gapping 6: SummaryReviewsNegation in Gapping is a challenging book written on challenging topics by a researcher who is committed to and talented in combining a wide range of empirical facts with highly sophisticated theorizing ... the book righly rewards those who are well informed in the ellipsis literature and are open to interdisciplinary analyses. * Satoshi Tomioka, Language * Negation in Gapping is a challenging book written on challenging topics by a researcher who is committed to and talented in combining a wide range of empirical facts with highly sophisticated theorizing ... the book righly rewards those who are well informed in the ellipsis literature and are open to interdisciplinary analyses. Satoshi Tomioka, Language Author InformationSophie Repp is a Research Associate in Linguistics at the Humboldt University Berlin. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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