Topics in Ellipsis

Name: Topics in Ellipsis
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ISBN: 9780521815086

ISBN-10: 0521815088

ISBN-13: 9780521815086

Edition: 2007

Authors: Kyle Johnson

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This volume brings together a team of leading syntacticians to propose new and original solutions to some key questions in the study of ellipsis: what characterizes ellipsis? Under what conditions is it possible? What kinds of meanings are allowed to go unspoken?

Book details

List price: $91.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/10/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 308
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.408
Language: English

Kyle Johnson is Professor in the Linguistics Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.




Introduction




VP Ellipsis and constraints on interpretation




Direct compositionality and variable-free semantics: the case of antecedent contained deletion




The view of QR from ellipsis




Argument contained ellipsis




Variable island repair under ellipsis




On binding scope and ellipsis scope




The silent content of bound variable pronouns




A step-by-step guide to ellipsis resolution




Shared constituents and linearization