The syntax of Dutch gapping
This article takes as its point of departure Neijt’s (1979) claim that gapping is a rule of syntax with properties also found in wh-movement constructions. I will refine this proposal by concluding that gapping remnants are A′-moved into the clause-initial position (SpecCP) and/or the specifiers of functional projections such as TopP, FocP and NegP found in the middle field of the clause. I will further show that this approach sheds new light on various problems (such as the distribution of modal and polarity particles) not satisfactorily solved in earlier analyses.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Gapping and wh-movement
- 3.Gapping and A′-movement
- 4.Verbal-head restriction on gapping
- 5.Interrogative, topicalized and negative phrases
- 6.Focus particles
- 7.Elision of the negative marker niet ‘not’ is impossible
- 8.Concluding remarks
- Acknowledgements
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