The Interfaces

Deriving and interpreting omitted structures

Editors

Kerstin Schwabe

| ZAS, Berlin

Susanne Winkler

| University of Tübingen

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The Interfaces: Deriving and Interpreting Omitted Structures is a collection of never-before-published papers that explore the nature of the interfaces of syntax with semantics, phonology, and discourse. The papers investigate the various ways in which elliptical structures are related to these interfaces. As such, they not only make a valuable contribution to generative linguistic research but, more generally, help to deepen our understanding of the relation between form and meaning in natural language.

In the book’s introductory chapter, the editors address general issues related to current work on ellipsis and the syntax/semantics, syntax/phonology and syntax/discourse interfaces. The rest of the book is organized into three parts. The first examines PF-deletion accounts of elliptical structures; the second investigates these structures from the perspective of the syntax/semantic interface; and the third explores these from a perspective that concentrates on the relation between semantics and focus and discourse structure. Together the papers collected in this volume offer a convincing demonstration of the value of collaborative research on the ‘interfaces’.

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 61] 2003. vi, 403 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.61

Table of Contents

Exploring the interfaces from the perspective of omitted structures Kerstin Schwabe and Susanne Winkler	1–26
I. Towards the exploration of PF-deletion accounts	27
Ellipsis and syntactic representation Christopher Kennedy	29–53
Subject-auxiliary inversion in comparatives and PF output constraints Jason Merchant	55–77
Antecedent-containment and ellipsis Chris Wilder	79–119
Background matching in right node raising constructions Katharina Hartmann	121–151
II. From the computational system to the syntax-semantics interface	153
Merge copy Caterina Donati	155–175
Phrase structure paradoxes, movement and ellipsis Winfried Lechner	177–203
Unpronounced heads in relative clauses Uli Sauerland	205–226
Variation at the syntax-semantics interface : Evidence from gapping Luis López and Susanne Winkler	227–248
III. The semantic component and its connection to focus and discourse structure	249
Ellipsis and the structure of discourse Daniel Hardt	251–262
Correlate restriction and definiteness effect in ellipsis Maribel Romero	263–300
F-marking and specificity in sluicing constructions Kerstin Schwabe	301–319
The semantics of Japanese null pronouns and its cross-linguistic implications Satoshi Tomioka	321–339
Omission impossible? : Topic and focus in Focal Ellipsis Petra Gretsch	341–365
References	367–387
Name index	389–393
Subject index	395–399

“This volume is a valuable contribution to the study of ellipsis and in particular the role that the interaction of different grammatical components play in the licensing of elliptical structures.”

Dimitrios Ntelitheos, University of California on Linguist List 14-1213, 2003

“Very nicely edited, this book is a must for anyone interested in or working on ellipsis. The volume introduces a wide range of approaches to the topic and should be useful to both the researcher and the advanced student of elided structures.”

Eric Mathieu, University of Toronto, in Journal of Linguistics 41, 2005

“The quality of the contributions is high, the data subtle, the references abundant and up-to-date, and all the obvious research alternatives in the current scene represented, so on the whole, the volume is informative and offers a representative sample of recent ellipsis-related work within generative theory.”

José Luis González Escribano, University of Oviedo, in Language 82(1), 2006

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Subjects

Linguistics

Semantics

Generative linguistics

Syntax

BIC Subject: CFK – Grammar, syntax

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2002034217