Parenthesis and Ellipsis: Cross-Linguistic and Theoretical Perspectives

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Parenthesis and Ellipsis

Cross-Linguistic and Theoretical Perspectives

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Published/Copyright: 2015

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Volume 121 | Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]

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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 and various subfields of linguistics.

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Marlies Kluck, Dennis Ott, and Mark de Vries, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

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Incomplete parenthesis: An overview
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Marlies Kluck, Dennis Ott and Mark de Vries

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Parenthesis and comparative operator deletion
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Julia Bacskai-Atkari

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Sluicing and the inquisitive potential of appositives
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James N. Collins, Daria Popova, Ivan A. Sag and Thomas Wasow

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Heads must be heard: Overtness and ellipsis licensing
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Tracy Conner

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Parentheticals are – presumably – CPs
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Sandra Döring

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Syntactic hypotheses about so-called ‘que-deletion’ in French
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Frédéric Gachet

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Ki issues in Turkish
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James Griffiths and Güliz Güneş

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Discourse inversion and deletion in as-parentheticals
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Nicholas LaCara

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The inherent syntactic incompleteness of right node raising
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Bradley Larson

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Parenthesis: Fundamental features, meanings, discourse functions and ellipsis
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Stefan Schneider

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Intonation phrases and speech acts
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Hubert Truckenbrodt

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Index
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December 12, 2014

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9781614514831

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November 27, 2014

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9781614516743

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614514831

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Parenthesis; Ellipsis; Syntax; Semantics; Pragmatics.

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Research Libraries, Researchers and Advanced Students of Linguistics (Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics).

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Parenthesis and Ellipsis

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Supplementary Materials

Topics

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

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