Full Description
This volume explores the nature of ellipsis, the core phenomenon that results in various types of omission in sentences. The chapters adopt the popular 'silent structure' accounts of ellipsis, and investigate the question of when linguistic material becomes silenced during the derivation and realization of syntactic structure.
The book begins with a detailed introduction from the editors that outlines the current generative syntactic approaches to the derivational timing of ellipsis. In the chapters that follow, internationally-recognized experts in the field address key topics including structure building, the architecture of grammar, the interaction of distinct modules with syntax, the order of operations in the post-syntactic component, and constraints on binding relations. The authors also present novel arguments for and against the derivational approaches to ellipsis, the licensing of ellipsis, and phonological constraints on elliptical sentences. The findings, based on data from English and other languages such as Armenian, Italo-Romance, Ossetic, Spanish, Taiwanese, and Turkish, facilitate a deeper understanding of the interaction between syntax and the neighbouring modules in the formation of elliptical utterances.
Contents
General preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
The contributors
1: Güliz Güne¸and Anikó Liptáks: The derivational timing of ellipsis: An overview of analytical approaches
2: David Erschler: Extra-deletion processes: Implications for the timing of ellipsis
3: James Griffiths and Marcel den Dikken: English VP ellipsis in Unusual Subject configurations: Reviving the Spec-Head Agreement approach
4: Andrew Murphy and Gereon Müller: Derivational ellipsis and Vehicle Change
5: Andrés Saab: Grammatical silences from syntax to morphology: A model for the timing of ellipsis
6: Craig Sailor: The morphophonology of ellipsis: Evidence for Segregated Transfer
7: Andrew Weir: Fragments and left-edge ellipsis: The division of labour between syntax, semantics, and prosody
References
Index
