Parenthesis and Ellipsis

Marlies Kluck, Dennis Ott, Mark de Vries, Marlies Kluck, Dennis Ott, Mark de Vries

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781501500466
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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.

Index

A′ (A-bar) movement see movement, A′ -

accent see stress, phrasal

acceptability 1–2

accusative see case

across-the-board see movement,

across-the-board

adjacency see linear adjacency

adverb

– assertive 1–2

– epistemic 1

– sentence 1, 2, 3–4, 5, 6, 7, 8–9, 10–11, 12–13, 14–15, 16, 17, 18

– speaker-oriented 1, 2, 3, 4, 5–6, 7, 8–9, 10

– speech act 1–2, 3, 4–5, 6, 7

A′-dependency see movement A′-

affixation see suspended affixation

African American English (AAE) 1, 2–3, 4–5, 6–7

afterthought 1, 2, 3–4

– attributive/predicational 1

– identificational/specificational 1, 2

– see also dislocation

amalgam 1–2

American English see Mainstream American English

anaphora 1, 2–3, 4, 5, 6

– deep 1, 2

– pronominal 1, 2, 3

– surface 1, 2, 3

– see also Backward Anaphora Constraint; binding

anchor

– clause 1–2, 3, 4, 5, 6

– nominal 1, 2, 3, 4, 5–6, 7–8

– prepositional 1, 2–3

antecedent

– indefinite 1–2 3–4, 5–6, 7–8, 9, 10–11

– linguistic vs. contextual 1, 2–3

– voice of see mismatch, voice

– see also correlate

antecedent-contained deletion 1

antilocality 1

apposition 1, 2, 3–4, 5–6, 7, 8–9

– attributive/predicational 1, 2–3

– boundary see boundary, appositive

– case of see case of apposition

– identificational/specificational 1, 2, 3–4

– multiple-argument 1–2

– one-argument 1–2

– yani- 1–2, 3–4, 5

appositive see apposition; clause, appositive relative

argument

– external 1, 2, 3

– internal 1–2, 3, 4, 5, 6

– missing 1–2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7–8, 9, 10, 11, 12–13 see also null pro-form

– of degree element 1, 2, 3

– see also apposition, multiple-/ one-argument

as-parenthetical 1, 2, 3–4, 5–6, 7

assertive adverb see adverb, assertive

at-issue see non-at-issue content

attribution see afterthought; apposition; clause, appositive relative; coordination

Backward Anaphora Constraint 1–2

biclausal 1–2

binding

– of reflexive 1

– of variable 1, 2–3, 4–5, 6, 7–8

– see also anaphora; variable

boundary

– adjunct 1

– appositive 1–2

– clause 1, 2

– intonation phrase see prosodic boundary

– island 1, 2, 3, 4–5 see also locality

– prosodic see prosodic boundary

– see also binding; locality

Brazilian Portuguese 1, 2–3

British English 1, 2

Canadian French 1, 2

case

– exceptional marking 1

– of afterthought 1

– of apposition 1–2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7–8

– of remnant 1

– see also possessive

c-command 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14–15

C-head see complementizer

Chinese see Mandarin

Classical Greek 1, 2

clausal appositive 1

– see also clause, appositive relative

clausal ellipsis 1–2, 3, 4, 5–6

– see also ellipsis; fragment answer; gapping; sluicing

clause

– appositive relative 1–2, 3–4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10–11, 12–13, 14

– comment 1, 2, ...

Table of contents

• Studies in Generative Grammar
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Incomplete parenthesis: An overview
• Parenthesis and comparative operator deletion
• Sluicing and the inquisitive potential of appositives
• Tracy Conner - 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 inas-parentheticals
• The inherent syntactic incompleteness of right node raising
• Parenthesis: Fundamental features, meanings, discourse functions and ellipsis
• Intonation phrases and speech acts
• Index