Negation in gapping / Sophie Repp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Repp, Sophie.

Series:

Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 22.

Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Negatives.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Syntax.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (281 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 varyingcombinations of syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and prosodic factors. Illustrating her argument by the interpretation o

Contents:

Contents; General Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; 1.1 The problem and outline of the book; 1.2 Some basic features of gapping; 1.3 Theories of gapping; 1.4 Summary and sketch of the proposal; 2 The syntax of clausal negation: The distributed scope readings in main verb gapping; 2.1 Clausal negation in English and German; 2.2 Adjuncts in gapping; 2.3 The syntax of gapping: Proposal; 3 The right kind of contrast: Narrow scope readings; 3.1 Contrastive but; 3.2 And and the principle of balanced contrast; 3.3 Auxiliary gapping and contrasting vPs; 3.4 Focus particles

3.5 Summary4 Negation and the speech act; 4.1 Corrections and corrective but: More narrow scope readings; 4.2 The wide scope readings; 5 Finiteness in gapping; 5.1 Assertion; 5.2 Anchoring; 5.3 Anchoring and gapping; 6 Summary; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-261) and index.

ISBN:

0-19-954361-5

1-281-97869-8

9786611978693

0-19-156247-5

0-19-156246-7

OCLC:

735626771