Bare argument ellipsis and focus /
This monograph explores the syntax and information structure of bare argument ellipsis. The study concentrates on stripping, which is identified as a subtype of bare argument ellipsis typically associated with focus sensitive particles or negation. This monograph presents a unified account of stripp...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2017]
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Colección: | Linguistik aktuell.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Bare Argument Ellipsis and Focus; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Index of Abbrevations; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Ellipsis and coordination; 1.2 Research questions and proposal; 1.3 Structure of the book; 2. Types of bare argument ellipsis; 2.1 Stripping vs. negative contrastive constructions; 2.2 Fragments; 2.3 Split conjuncts; 2.4 A Note on conjunction reduction and BAE; 2.5 Embedded BAE; 2.6 Conclusion; 3. State of the Art; 3.1 Approaches to ellipsis; 3.2 PF-deletion approaches; 3.2.1 Merchant (2004); 3.2.2 Depiante (2000); 3.2.3 Kolokonte (2008).
- 3.3 Movement approaches3.3.1 ATB-approaches to BAE; Anchor 57; 3.3.2 Rightward movement approaches (Reinhart 1991); 3.4 Non-elliptical approaches; 3.4.1 Culicover and Jackendoff (2005); 3.5 Conclusion; 4. Licensing stripping; 4.1 Concepts of information structure; 4.1.1 Topic-comment; 4.1.2 Focus-background; 4.1.3 Given-new; 4.1.4 Contrast and parallelism; 4.1.5 Summary; 4.2 The information structure of stripping; 4.2.1 Topic and focus in stripping; 4.3 Focus-sensitive particles and negation; 4.3.1 Behavior of auch in full clauses; 4.3.2 English too, also, as well; 4.3.3 German schon.
- 4.4 Deriving elliptical clauses from full clauses4.5 The syntax of stripping: Arguments for two different types; 4.6 The licensing mechanism; 4.7 Conclusion; 5. Experimental evidence; 5.1 Previous psycholinguistic studies on BAE; 5.2 Experiment 1: Stripping and acceptability; 5.2.1 Stimuli; 5.2.2 Procedure; 5.2.3 Participants; 5.2.4 Results and discussion; 5.3 Experiment 2: Discourse conditions; 5.3.1 Stimuli; 5.3.2 Procedure; 5.3.3 Participants; 5.3.4 Results and discussion; 5.4 Experiment 3: Stripping and prosody; 5.4.1 Stimuli; 5.4.2 Procedure; 5.4.3 Participants; 5.4.4 Results.
- 5.5 Discussion5.6 Experiment 4: Extracting out of stripping; 5.6.1 Stimuli; 5.6.2 Procedure; 5.6.3 Participants; 5.6.4 Results for und-coordination; 5.6.5 Results for aber-coordination; 5.6.6 Discussion; 5.7 Conclusion; 6. Embedded stripping; 6.1 Introduction: Stripping and embedding; 6.2 New data: Embedded stripping; 6.3 Problems for theories of stripping; 6.4 Other types of reduced subordinate clauses; 6.5 Embedded stripping; 6.6 (Non- )embedding is a reflex of information structure; 6.6.1 Hypothesis: Non-embedding is a reflex of information structure and discourse relations.
- 6.6.2 Parallelism conditions for stripping6.7 Conclusion; 7. Conclusion and outlook; References; Appendix; Index.