Ellipsis and Nonsentential Speech (Paperback, 2005 ed.)

The papers in this volume address two main topics: Q1: What is the nature, and especially the scope, of ellipsis in natural l- guage? Q2: What are the linguistic/philosophical implications of what one takes the nature/scope of ellipsis to be? As will emerge below, each of these main topics includes a large sub-part that deals speci?cally with nonsentential speech. Within the ?rst main topic, Q1, there arises the sub-issueofwhethernonsententialspeechfallswithinthescopeofellipsisornot;within the second main topic, Q2, there arises the sub-issue of what linguistic/philosophical implications follow, if nonsentential speech does/does not count as ellipsis. I. THE NATURE AND SCOPE OF ELLIPSIS A. General Issue: How Many Natural Kinds? There are many things to which the label 'ellipsis' can be readily applied. But it's quite unclear whether all of them belong in a single natural kind. To explain, consider a view, assumed in Stainton (2000), Stainton (2004a), and elsewhere. It is the view that there are fundamentally (at least) three very different things that readily get called 'ellipsis', each belonging to a distinct kind. First, there is the very broad phenomenon of a speaker omitting information which the hearer is expected to make use of in interpreting an utterance. Included therein, possibly as a special case, is the use of an abbreviated form of speech, when one could have used a more explicit expression. (See Neale (2000) and Sellars (1954) for more on this idea.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy, 81
Release date:	May 2005
First published:	2005
Editors:	Reinaldo Elugardo • Robert J. Stainton
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	266
Edition:	2005 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4020-2300-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > General
LSN:	1-4020-2300-6
Barcode:	9781402023002

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