Ellipsis and Focus in Generative Grammar / / Susanne Winkler.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Winkler, Susanne,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG] , 81
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (295 p.) :; Num. figs.
• Other title: i-iv --; Preface --; Contents --; Prologue --; Chapter 1: Ellipsis and focus: An introduction --; Chapter 2: Ellipsis at the interfaces: A proposal --; Chapter 3: VP-anaphora and ellipsis of VP in English and German --; Chapter 4: Gapping: A sideward movement account --; Chapter 5: Conclusion and final remarks --; Notes --; References --; Subject Index --; Author Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110890426; 9783110238570; 9783110238457; 9783110636970; 9783110742961; 9783110277111; 9783110277173; 9783110277142; 9783110276886
• ISSN: 0167-4331
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110890426
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Susanne Winkler.

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.