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Negation in Gapping (Hardcover, New)
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Negation in Gapping (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics, 22
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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 varying combinations of syntactic,
semantic, pragmatic, and prosodic factors. Illustrating her
argument by the interpretation of the negation in examples such as
"Pete hasn't got a video and John a DVD," "Pete didn't clean the
whole flat and John laze around all afternoon," and "To Mary, Pete
didn't say anything and to Sue, only that he was hungry," Dr Repp
questions a basic assumption in the analysis of gapping: that the
meaning of the two conjuncts must be parallel in the elided
material. This leads her to a wide-ranging discussion of the
interpretation of scope and the nature of negation. She then
proposes a syntactic analysis that both takes into account the
interaction of the grammatical interfaces and is at the same time
compatible with more general assumptions of current generative
theory. She concludes by considering the implications of her
findings for linguistic theory more generally.
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