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Modality and Ellipsis - Diachronic and Synchronic Evidence (Hardcover)
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Modality and Ellipsis - Diachronic and Synchronic Evidence (Hardcover)
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
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Aspects of modality and ellipsis have become prominent in
theoretical linguistics over the last years. What has remained
under-investigated is the fact that modals tend to make excellent
ellipsis licensers and, conversely, that many of the naturally
occurring cases of ellipsis are licensed by modals. The book
concentrates on the syntax of the modal auxiliaries with special
focus on English and investigates the grammatical relationship with
the process of ellipsis that interacts most relevantly with the
modals in grammaticalized fashion by including a special emphasis
on verb-phrase ellipsis. After a critical discussion of pertinent
approaches in the two domains, the book focuses on establishing the
connection between the two areas by essentially drawing on the
history of English and on observable effects in modern grammars,
which it puts into perspective with semantically grounded features
on the modals involved. Two major generalizations are proposed in
the monograph. The first generalization concerns the treatment of
the interaction between modals and ellipsis as determined by the
features located in the licensing modal heads. To this end, the
syntactic effects of the main semantic factors are explored in
detail in English and partial effects obtaining in other languages
are discussed. The second generalization concerns the syntactic
component involved in ellipsis licensing. It is suggested that
ellipsis types with the distributional features of verb-phrase
ellipsis are licensed by interpretable features of the licensing
head. The two generalizations are intertwined with one another and
derive a series of further legitimate ellipsis licensers beyond the
modals. The role of formal features that are interpretable is
distinguished from agreement features, which are claimed not to be
in charge of ellipsis licensing.
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