The Interfaces : deriving and interpreting omitted structures / edited by Kerstin Schwabe, Susanne Winkler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schwabe, Kerstin.

Winkler, Susanne, 1960-

Series:

Linguistik aktuell ; Bd. 61.

Linguistik aktuell = Linguistics today, 0166-0829 ; 61

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Ellipsis.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Semantics.

Physical Description:

vi, 399 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub.Co., 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Interfaces: Deriving and Interpreting Omitted Structures is a collection of never-before-published papers that explore the nature of the interfaces of syntax with semantics, phonology, and discourse. The papers investigate the various ways in which elliptical structures are related to these interfaces. As such, they not only make a valuable contribution to generative linguistic research but, more generally, help to deepen our understanding of the relation between form and meaning in natural language.In the book's introductory chapter, the editors address general issues related to current work on ellipsis and the syntax/semantics, syntax/phonology and syntax/discourse interfaces. The rest of the book is organized into three parts. The first examines PF-deletion accounts of elliptical structures; the second investigates these structures from the perspective of the syntax/semantic interface; and the third explores these from a perspective that concentrates on the relation between semantics and focus and discourse structure. Together the papers collected in this volume offer a convincing demonstration of the value of collaborative research on the 'interfaces'.

Contents:

The Interfaces

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Table of contents

Exploring the interfaces from the perspective of omitted structures

Notes

I. Towards the exploration of PF-deletion accounts

Ellipsis and syntactic representation

Summary

Subject-auxiliary inversion in comparatives and PF output constraints

Conclusion

Antecedent-containment and ellipsis

Acknowledgements

Background matching in right node raising constructions

II. From the computational system to the syntax-semantics interface

Merge copy

Phrase structure paradoxes, movement and ellipsis

Appendix I: Remnant movement in English

Appendix II: A speculative note on lox attachment

Unpronounced heads in relative clauses

Conclusions

Variation at the syntax-semantics interface

III. The semantic component and its connection to focus and discourse structure

Ellipsis and the structure of discourse

Correlate restriction and definiteness effect in ellipsis

Concluding remarks

Appendix

F-marking and specificity in sluicing constructions

The semantics of Japanese null pronouns and its cross-linguistic implications

Concluding remarks and new questions

Omission impossible?

References

Name index

Subject index

Current issues in LINGUISTIK AKTUELL/LINGUISTICS TODAY.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612255472

9781282255470

1282255479

9780585467511

058546751X

9789027296917

902729691X

OCLC:

191926496