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Pseudogapping and Ellipsis (Hardcover)
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Pseudogapping and Ellipsis (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, 47
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This book is all about ellipsis in natural language - the phenomena
in which words and phrases go missing in the linguistic signal, but
are nonethe less interpreted by the receiver, eg 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.
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