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Omission impossible?

Topic and focus in Focal Ellipsis
© 2003 John Benjamins Publishing Company

© 2003 John Benjamins Publishing Company

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Exploring the interfaces from the perspective of omitted structures 1
  4. I. Towards the exploration of PF-deletion accounts
  5. Ellipsis and syntactic representation 29
  6. Subject-auxiliary inversion in comparatives and PF output constraints 55
  7. Antecedent-containment and ellipsis 79
  8. Background matching in right node raising constructions 121
  9. II. From the computational system to the syntax-semantics interface
  10. Merge copy 155
  11. Phrase structure paradoxes, movement and ellipsis 177
  12. Unpronounced heads in relative clauses 205
  13. Variation at the syntax-semantics interface 227
  14. III. The semantic component and its connection to focus and discourse structure
  15. Ellipsis and the structure of discourse 251
  16. Correlate restriction and definiteness effect in ellipsis 263
  17. F-marking and specificity in sluicing constructions 301
  18. The semantics of Japanese null pronouns and its cross-linguistic implications 321
  19. Omission impossible? 341
  20. References 367
  21. Name index 389
  22. Subject index 395
The Interfaces
This chapter is in the book The Interfaces
https://doi.org/10.1075/la.61.17gre

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Exploring the interfaces from the perspective of omitted structures 1
  4. I. Towards the exploration of PF-deletion accounts
  5. Ellipsis and syntactic representation 29
  6. Subject-auxiliary inversion in comparatives and PF output constraints 55
  7. Antecedent-containment and ellipsis 79
  8. Background matching in right node raising constructions 121
  9. II. From the computational system to the syntax-semantics interface
  10. Merge copy 155
  11. Phrase structure paradoxes, movement and ellipsis 177
  12. Unpronounced heads in relative clauses 205
  13. Variation at the syntax-semantics interface 227
  14. III. The semantic component and its connection to focus and discourse structure
  15. Ellipsis and the structure of discourse 251
  16. Correlate restriction and definiteness effect in ellipsis 263
  17. F-marking and specificity in sluicing constructions 301
  18. The semantics of Japanese null pronouns and its cross-linguistic implications 321
  19. Omission impossible? 341
  20. References 367
  21. Name index 389
  22. Subject index 395
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