Ellipsis and Focus in Generative Grammar

Susanne Winkler

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2005

Ellipsis and Focus in Generative Grammar

Susanne Winkler

Volume 81 in the series Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110890426

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About this book

Covering linguistic research on empty categories over more than three decades, this monograph presents the result of an in-depth syntactic and focus-theoretical investigation of ellipsis in generative grammar. The phenomenon of ellipsis most generally refers to the omission of linguistic material, structure and sound. The central aim of this book is to explain on the basis of linguistic theorizing of how it is possible that we understand more than we actually hear. The answer developed throughout this book is that ellipsis is an interface phenomenon which can only be explained on the basis of the complex interaction between syntax, semantics and information structure. Scholars of grammar and cognitive scientists will profit from reading this book.

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Susanne Winkler is Professor of English Linguistics at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany.

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Chapter 1: Ellipsis and focus: An introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	10
Chapter 2: Ellipsis at the interfaces: A proposal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
Chapter 3: VP-anaphora and ellipsis of VP in English and German Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Libraries, Researchers and Advanced Students of Linguistics (Generative Syntax and Semantics) and of English Studies.
Pages
- Front matter: 9
- Main content: 295
Illustrations
- Other: Num. figs.
Keywords: Ellipsis (Language); Generative Linguistics

eBook

Published: December 22, 2011
ISBN: 9783110890426

Hardcover

Published: December 15, 2005
ISBN: 9783110186017