The Syntactic Licensing of Ellipsis
| Ghent University
This monograph presents a theory of ellipsis licensing in terms of Agree and applies it to several elliptical phenomena in both English and Dutch. The author makes two main claims: The head selecting the ellipsis site is checked against the head licensing ellipsis in order for ellipsis to occur, and ellipsis – i.e., sending part of the structure to PF for non-pronunciation – occurs as soon as this checking relation is established. At that point, the ellipsis site becomes inaccessible for further syntactic operations. Consequently, this theory explains the limited extraction data displayed by ‘Dutch modals complement ellipsis’ as well as British English do: These ellipses allow subject extraction out of the ellipsis site, but not object extraction. The analysis also extends to phenomena that do not display such a restricted extraction, such as sluicing, VP ellipsis, and pseudogapping. Hence, this work is a step towards a unified analysis of ellipsis.
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 149] 2010. xii, 230 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
|
Preface
|
ix
|
|
Abbreviations and formats used in examples and glosses
|
xi–xii
|
|
Chapter 1. What is ellipsis?
|
1–16
|
|
Chapter 2. Dutch modal complement ellipsis
|
17–86
|
|
Chapter 3. Ellipsis licensing
|
87–156
|
|
Chapter 4. Extending the analysis to other ellipses
|
157–206
|
|
Chapter 5. Conclusion and issues for further research
|
207–214
|
|
References
|
215–228
|
|
Index
|
229–230
|
Cited by
Cited by 41 other publications
No author info given
2015.
In The Syntax of Multiple-queSentences in Spanish [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 2],
No author info given
2018.
In Norwegian Discourse Ellipsis [Studies in Germanic Linguistics, 2],
No author info given
2020.
In Silently Structured Silent Argument [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 259],
Abels, Klaus
2019. On “sluicing” with apparent massive pied-piping.
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 37:4 ► pp. 1205 ff.
Aelbrecht, Lobke & Liliane Haegeman
2012. VP-Ellipsis Is Not Licensed by VP-Topicalization.
Linguistic Inquiry 43:4 ► pp. 591 ff.
Al-Thubaiti, Kholoud A
2019. Selective vulnerability in very advanced L2 grammars: Evidence from VPE constraints.
Second Language Research 35:2 ► pp. 225 ff.
Arregi, Karlos & Asia Pietraszko
2021. The Ups and Downs of Head Displacement.
Linguistic Inquiry 52:2 ► pp. 241 ff.
Belder, Marijke De & Jeroen van Craenenbroeck
2015. How to Merge a Root.
Linguistic Inquiry 46:4 ► pp. 625 ff.
Bentzen, Kristine, Jason Merchant & Peter Svenonius
2013. Deep properties of surface pronouns: pronominal predicate anaphors in Norwegian and German.
The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 16:2-3 ► pp. 97 ff.
Bošković, Željko
2014. Now I’m a Phase, Now I’m Not a Phase: On the Variability of Phases with Extraction and Ellipsis.
Linguistic Inquiry 45:1 ► pp. 27 ff.
Bruhn de Garavito, Joyce
2016.
In Language Acquisition Beyond Parameters [Studies in Bilingualism, 51],
► pp. 99 ff.
Cecchetto, Carlo
2021.
In The Routledge Handbook of Theoretical and Experimental Sign Language Research,
► pp. 295 ff.
Dékány, Éva
2021.
In The Hungarian Nominal Functional Sequence [Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 100],
► pp. 15 ff.
Georgieva, Ekaterina, Martin Salzmann & Philipp Weisser
2021. Negative verb clusters in Mari and Udmurt and why they require postsyntactic top-down word-formation.
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 39:2 ► pp. 457 ff.
Harwood, William
2015. Being progressive is just a phase: celebrating the uniqueness of progressive aspect under a phase-based analysis.
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 33:2 ► pp. 523 ff.
Harwood, William
2018. Reduced Relatives and Extended Phases: A Phase-Based Analysis of the Inflectional Restrictions on English Reduced Relative Clauses.
Studia Linguistica 72:2 ► pp. 428 ff.
Hein, Johannes
2021. Verb movement and the lack of verb-doubling VP-topicalization in Germanic.
The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics 24:1 ► pp. 89 ff.
Johnson, Kyle
2017.
In The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, Second Edition,
► pp. 1 ff.
Landau, Idan
2020. A Scope Argument against T‐to‐C Movement in Sluicing.
Syntax 23:4 ► pp. 375 ff.
Landau, Idan
2020. Constraining Head-Stranding Ellipsis.
Linguistic Inquiry 51:2 ► pp. 281 ff.
Li, Yen-Hui Audrey & Ting-Chi Wei
2014.
In The Handbook of Chinese Linguistics,
► pp. 275 ff.
Lipták, Anikó
2018.
In Boundaries Crossed, at the Interfaces of Morphosyntax, Phonology, Pragmatics and Semantics [Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 94],
► pp. 327 ff.
Lipták, Anikó & Andrés Saab
2019. Hungarian particle reduplication as local doubling.
Acta Linguistica Academica 66:4 ► pp. 527 ff.
MAEDA, MASAKO
2018. ELLIPSIS AS TOPICALIZATION IN DERIVATIONAL CARTOGRAPHIC STRUCTURES.
ENGLISH LINGUISTICS 34:2 ► pp. 331 ff.
Maeda, Masako
2019. Argument Ellipsis and Scope Economy in Japanese.
Syntax 22:4 ► pp. 419 ff.
Manetta, Emily
2019. Verb-phrase ellipsis and complex predicates in Hindi-Urdu.
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 37:3 ► pp. 915 ff.
Merchant, Jason
2013. Voice and Ellipsis.
Linguistic Inquiry 44:1 ► pp. 77 ff.
Mulvey, Christopher
2016. The English Project's History of English Punctuation.
English Today 32:3 ► pp. 45 ff.
Ott, Dennis & Volker Struckmeier
2018. Particles and Deletion.
Linguistic Inquiry 49:2 ► pp. 393 ff.
Park, So-Young
2021. NP-ellipsis and numeral classifiers in Korean.
Linguistics 0:0
Radford, Andrew
2020.
In An Introduction to English Sentence Structure,
Radford, Andrew & Eiichi Iwasaki
2015. On Swiping in English.
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 33:2 ► pp. 703 ff.
Saab, Andrés & Anikó Lipták
2016. Movement and deletion after syntax: Licensing by inflection reconsidered.
Studia Linguistica 70:1 ► pp. 66 ff.
Sailor, Craig
2018. The typology of head movement and ellipsis.
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory 36:3 ► pp. 851 ff.
Sakamoto, Yuta
2019. Overtly Empty but Covertly Complex.
Linguistic Inquiry 50:1 ► pp. 105 ff.
Sinopoulou, Ourania
2020. Wh-questions with conjunction in Greek: ellipsis as an epiphenomenon of multidominance.
Acta Linguistica Hafniensia 52:2 ► pp. 180 ff.
TAKAKI, RUMI
2017. A UNIFIED ACCOUNT OF ELLIPTICAL CONSTRUCTIONS IN TERMS OF LABELING THEORY.
ENGLISH LINGUISTICS 33:2 ► pp. 445 ff.
van Craenenbroeck, Jeroen
2017.
In The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, Second Edition,
► pp. 1 ff.
van Craenenbroeck, Jeroen & Tanja Temmerman
2017. How (Not) to Elide Negation.
Syntax 20:1 ► pp. 41 ff.
van Elswyk, Peter
2019. Propositional anaphors.
Philosophical Studies 176:4 ► pp. 1055 ff.
Vicente, Luis, Matthew Barros, Troy Messick & Andrés Saab
2020. On a Nonargument for Cleft Sources in Sluicing.
Linguistic Inquiry ► pp. 1 ff.
This list is based on CrossRef data as of 11 may 2021. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.
Subjects
BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General