Parenthesis and Ellipsis : : Cross-Linguistic and Theoretical Perspectives / / ed. by Marlies Kluck, Dennis Ott, Mark de Vries.

This volume presents a cross-section of research addressing the interaction of two prominent areas in linguistic theory: parenthesis and ellipsis. The contributions address various theoretical questions raised by 'incomplete' parenthetical constituents, covering a diverse empirical domain...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2014]
©2015
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] , 121
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Physical Description:1 online resource (358 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Incomplete parenthesis: An overview
  • Parenthesis and comparative operator deletion
  • Sluicing and the inquisitive potential of appositives
  • Heads must be heard: Overtness and ellipsis licensing
  • Parentheticals are – presumably – CPs
  • Syntactic hypotheses about so-called ‘que-deletion’ in French
  • Ki issues in Turkish
  • Discourse inversion and deletion in as-parentheticals
  • The inherent syntactic incompleteness of right node raising
  • Parenthesis: Fundamental features, meanings, discourse functions and ellipsis
  • Intonation phrases and speech acts
  • Index