Bare Argument Ellipsis and Focus ( Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today )

Publication series ： Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today

Author： Andreas Konietzko

Publisher： John Benjamins Publishing Company‎

Publication year： 2016

E-ISBN: 9789027266569

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789027257161

Subject： H314 syntax

Keyword： Generative linguisticsGermanic linguisticsSemanticsSyntaxTheoretical linguistics

Language： ENG

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Bare Argument Ellipsis and Focus

Description

This monograph explores the syntax and information structure of bare argument ellipsis. The study concentrates on stripping, which is identified as a subtype of bare argument ellipsis typically associated with focus sensitive particles or negation. This monograph presents a unified account of stripping located at the syntax-information structure interface and argues for a licensing mechanism which is strongly tied to the focus properties of the construction. Under this view, types of bare argument ellipsis such as stripping and pseudostripping, which have received different treatments in the literature, are shown to be subject to the same licensing mechanism. This analysis is also extended to instances of bare argument ellipsis in embedded contexts, which have received little attention in the literature so far. Integrating theoretical and experimental reasoning, this study presents a series of experiments investigating the extraction, prosody and context properties of stripping and thus arrives at a comprehensive and unified account.

Chapter

Bare Argument Ellipsis and Focus

Index of Abbrevations

1. Introduction

1.1 Ellipsis and coordination

1.2 Research questions and proposal

1.3 Structure of the book

2. Types of bare argument ellipsis

2.1 Stripping vs. negative contrastive constructions

2.2 Fragments

2.3 Split conjuncts

2.4 A Note on conjunction reduction and BAE

2.5 Embedded BAE

2.6 Conclusion

3. State of the Art

3.1 Approaches to ellipsis

3.2 PF-deletion approaches

3.2.1 Merchant (2004)

3.2.2 Depiante (2000)

3.2.3 Kolokonte (2008)

3.3 Movement approaches

3.3.1 ATB-approaches to BAE

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3.3.2 Rightward movement approaches (Reinhart 1991)

3.4 Non-elliptical approaches

3.4.1 Culicover and Jackendoff (2005)

3.5 Conclusion

4. Licensing stripping

4.1 Concepts of information structure

4.1.1 Topic-comment

4.1.2 Focus-background

4.1.3 Given-new

4.1.4 Contrast and parallelism

4.1.5 Summary

4.2 The information structure of stripping

4.2.1 Topic and focus in stripping

4.3 Focus-sensitive particles and negation

4.3.1 Behavior of auch in full clauses

4.3.2 English too, also, as well

4.3.3 German schon

4.4 Deriving elliptical clauses from full clauses

4.5 The syntax of stripping: Arguments for two different types

4.6 The licensing mechanism

4.7 Conclusion

5. Experimental evidence

5.1 Previous psycholinguistic studies on BAE

5.2 Experiment 1: Stripping and acceptability

5.2.1 Stimuli

5.2.2 Procedure

5.2.3 Participants

5.2.4 Results and discussion

5.3 Experiment 2: Discourse conditions

5.3.1 Stimuli

5.3.2 Procedure

5.3.3 Participants

5.3.4 Results and discussion

5.4 Experiment 3: Stripping and prosody

5.4.1 Stimuli

5.4.2 Procedure

5.4.3 Participants

5.4.4 Results

5.5 Discussion

5.6 Experiment 4: Extracting out of stripping

5.6.1 Stimuli

5.6.2 Procedure

5.6.3 Participants

5.6.4 Results for und-coordination

5.6.5 Results for aber-coordination

5.6.6 Discussion

5.7 Conclusion

6. Embedded stripping

6.1 Introduction: Stripping and embedding

6.2 New data: Embedded stripping

6.3 Problems for theories of stripping

6.4 Other types of reduced subordinate clauses

6.5 Embedded stripping

6.6 (Non-)embedding is a reflex of information structure

6.6.1 Hypothesis: Non-embedding is a reflex of information structure and discourse relations

6.6.2 Parallelism conditions for stripping

6.7 Conclusion

7. Conclusion and outlook

References

Appendix

Index

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