By Dr Susanne Winkler
Masking linguistic learn on empty different types over greater than 3 many years, this monograph provides the results of an in-depth syntactic and focus-theoretical research of ellipsis in generative grammar. The phenomenon of ellipsis most widely refers back to the omission of linguistic fabric, constitution and sound. The primary target of this booklet is to provide an explanation for at the foundation of linguistic theorizing of ways it's attainable that we comprehend greater than we really pay attention. the reply constructed all through this booklet is that ellipsis is an interface phenomenon that may basically be defined at the foundation of the complicated interplay among syntax, semantics and knowledge constitution. students of grammar and cognitive scientists will take advantage of interpreting this booklet.
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Proform account is feasible when no movement is involved, as in the core cases of VPE. 38 Ellipsis and focus: An introduction That is, whenever syntactic displacement (A'-movement) out of the ellipsis site occurs, the moved constituent is interpreted as a contrastive focus/topic and the elliptical site must have syntactic representation for obvious reasons. When no movement is involved, as in the core cases of VPE, the construction can be better explained by the proform account where the verbal anaphora serves the function of marking the deleted string as given material.
Movement to a higher position). The optionality of the operation (agreement or displacement) is not an imperfection of the system, but a skillful and economical implementation of the formal Ε-feature to v/C of the super- 34 Ellipsis and focus: An introduction engineer that Chomsky (2000, 2001) is envisaging, as I will illustrate below and in more detail in Chapter 2. An example for the erasure of the formal Ε-feature via agreement is given in (19a), and via displacement to the edge of the phase by entering into a cleft construction in (19b): (19) a.
Under the assumption that PF interacts directly with SSI that has access to anaphoricity, reference, specificity and event management in the pragmatic component, then nothing special must be said about the location of the accent in the first cycle. It will follow naturally from a rule that assigns a PA to the head of the phase α if and only if its internal argument is given, as in (16). 22 (16) PhasaJ Head Prominence Rule (PHP-Rule) The head of the phase is assigned a pitch accent, iff its internal argument is given.