Parenthesis and ellipsis : cross-linguistic and theoretical perspectives / edited by Marlies Kluck, Dennis Ott, Mark de Vries.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kluck, Marlies, editor.

Ott, Dennis, 1983- editor.

Vries, Mark de, editor.

Series:

Studies in generative grammar ; Volume 121.

Studies in Generative Grammar, 0167-4331 ; Volume 121

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages.

Linguistics.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (364 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] : De Gruyter Mouton, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume presents a cross-section of research addressing the interaction of two prominent areas in linguistic theory: parenthesis and ellipsis. The contributions address various theoretical questions raised by 'incomplete' parenthetical constituents, covering a diverse empirical domain and various subfields of linguistics.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Incomplete parenthesis: An overview

Parenthesis and comparative operator deletion

Sluicing and the inquisitive potential of appositives

Heads must be heard: Overtness and ellipsis licensing

Parentheticals are - presumably - CPs

Syntactic hypotheses about so-called 'que-deletion' in French

Ki issues in Turkish

Discourse inversion and deletion in as-parentheticals

The inherent syntactic incompleteness of right node raising

Parenthesis: Fundamental features, meanings, discourse functions and ellipsis

Intonation phrases and speech acts

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 31, 2015).

ISBN:

9781501500466

1501500465

9781614514831

1614514836

OCLC:

900911171