Pseudogapping and ellipsis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gengel, Kirsten, author.

Series:

Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Ellipsis.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Physical Description:

xiv, 185 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Summary:

This book is all about Ellipsis' in natural language - the phenomena in which words and phrases go missing in the linguistic signal, but are nonetheless interpreted by the receiver, e.g. in the following sentence, the second instance of read is understood whether or not it is spoken: Claire read a book and Heather [read] a magazine. Contemporary theoretical linguistics has described several forms of ellipsis in English, and different syntactic mechanisms have been proposed which account for their structures. Kirsten Gengel investigates Pseudogapping, which, she proposes, is one variety of Ellipsis. At the heart of her discussion lies the interaction between focus and deletion. Her analysis - which draws on new research in Icelandic, Norwegian, Danish, and Dutch, as well as data from Portuguese, French, and English - provides a novel approach to not only this particular form of ellipsis but to the derivation of ellipsis in general, and has the potential of unifying several elliptical phenomena in generative grammar. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Introduction

1 Introduction 3

1.1 The puzzle 5

1.2 Overview of the book 6

2 An Overview of the Data 8

2.1 Elliptical structures in English 8

2.1.1 VP Ellipsis 8

2.1.2 Pseudogapping 9

2.1.3 Differences between Pseudogapping and VP Ellipsis 11

2.1.4 Gapping 13

2.1.5 Differences between Pseudogapping and Gapping 13

2.1.6 Sluicing, Fragment answers, and Bare Argument Ellipsis 14

2.1.7 NP Ellipsis 15

2.2 Pseudogapping cross-linguistically 16

2.2.1 Pseudogapping in Norwegian, Danish, and Icelandic 16

2.2.1.1 Pseudogapping in Norwegian 17

2.2.1.2 Pseudogapping in Danish 18

2.2.1.3 Pseudogapping in Icelandic 19

2.2.2 Pseudogapping in Portuguese 20

2.2.3 Pseudogapping in French 21

3 Previous Accounts of Pseudogapping 22

3.1 Pseudogapping as an instance of VP Ellipsis 23

3.1.1 A-movement analysis: overt Object Shift 23

3.1.2 A-bar-movement analyses 26

3.1.2.1 Heavy Noun Phrase Shift 27

3.1.2.2 Focus Movement 28

3.1.3 A-movement and A-bar-movement combined 29

3.1.3.1 Dutch Scrambling 30

3.1.3.2 The 'Eclectic' approach: Heavy NP Shift and Object Shift 31

3.2 Pseudogapping as an instance of Gapping 33

3.2.1 Across-the-Board Movement (ATB) 33

3.2.2 Sidewards Movement 34

3.3 Conclusion 36

Part II Movement

4 A-Movement in Pseudogapping 39

4.1 The Object Shift analysis 39

4.2 The EPP as trigger for Object Shift 45

4.3 Challenges for EPP-driven Object Shift 48

4.4 Object Shift in the 'Eclectic' account of Pseudogapping 54

4.5 Binding effects in Pseudogapping 58

4.6 Parasitic gaps in Pseudogapping 60

4.7 Control in Pseudogapping 62

4.8 Conclusion 63

5 A-Bar-Movement in Pseudogapping 64

5.1 Reconsidering Binding effects in Pseudogapping 64

5.1.1 Reconstruction effects 66

5.1.2 Parasitic gap licensing in Pseudogapping 67

5.1.3 Control in Pseudogapping 70

5.1.4 Binding relations and A-bar-movement 71

5.2 Heavy Noun Phrase Shift 72

5.3 Syntactic Focus Movement 75

5.3.1 Syntactic Focus Movement from a cross-linguistic perspective 76

5.3.1.1 Hebrew 76

5.3.1.2 Italian 77

5.3.1.3 Hungarian 78

5.3.1.4 Malayalam 79

5.3.1.5 Korean 'Pseudogapping' 80

5.3.1.6 Syntactic Focus Movement in English cleft constructions 82

5.3.2 Syntactic Focus Movement in English Pseudogapping 84

5.3.2.1 Focus effects in Pseudogapping: an argument against the 'Eclectic' approach 84

5.3.2.2 The landing site of Syntactic Focus Movement 88

5.3.2.3 Deriving direct object remnants and PPs in Pseudogapping 91

5.3.2.4 Deriving indirect object remnants in Pseudogapping 92

5.4 Conclusion 95

Part III Deletion

6 The Semantics of Focus and Ellipsis 99

6.1 The Alternative Semantics approach to Focus 99

6.2 Challenges for the Alternative Semantics approach 102

6.3 Implementing F-indexing in syntactic structure 106

6.4 Licensing Ellipsis with the Squiggle operator 109

6.5 A challenge for semantic licensing in Ellipsis: deaccenting structures 111

6.6 The concept of E-Givenness 113

6.7 Challenges for the E-Givenness approach 117

6.7.1 Argument alternations 117

6.7.2 E-Givenness and F-marking 119

6.8 A new Focus Condition on Ellipsis 122

7 The Deletion Process 125

7.1 The definition of the E-feature 125

7.2 The E-feature in different elliptical structures 128

7.3 The position of the E-feature 131

7.4 The relationship between E-feature and Focus feature 136

Part IV A Uniform Account of Ellipsis

8 Movement and Deletion: A Uniform Account of Ellipsis 141

8.1 Pseudogapping 141

8.2 VP Ellipsis 142

8.3 The size of the elided structure in Pseudogapping and VP Ellipsis 143

8.3.1 VP as deletion site 144

8.3.2 vP as deletion site 147

8.4 Phase-based deletion at the vP level 153

8.5 Sluicing and Fragment answers 155

8.6 Gapping 158

8.7 Phase-based deletion at the CP level 165

8.8 NP Ellipsis 166

8.8.1 A Focus projection in DP 166

8.8.2 Phase-based deletion at the DP level 168

8.9 Conclusion 169

9 Conclusion 170.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199665303

0199665303

9780199665310

0199665311

OCLC:

861666093