Ellipsis and focus in generative grammar - Winkler, Susanne 1960- (Mouton de Gruyter, 2005)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-285) and indexes
""Prologue""; ""Chapter 1: Ellipsis and focus: An introduction""; ""1. Introduction""; ""2. The derivational model""; ""3. The syntax-semantics interface""; ""3.1. The cyclic derivation of surface semantic interpretation""; ""3.2. The double-cycle information structure hypothesis""; ""3.3. Information focus and contrastive focus: A derivational approach""; ""4. The hybrid focus analysis of ellipsis""; ""5. Conclusion""; ""6. Distinguishing sentence-bound and discourse-bound ellipsis: A preview""; ""Chapter 2: Ellipsis at the interfaces: A proposal""; ""1. Introduction""
""2. Deletion vs. deaccentuation""""2.1. Previous accounts""; ""2.2. The parallel computation account""; ""3. The pragmatics-PF interface""; ""3.1. Anaphoricity and the traditional notion of givenness""; ""3.2. Schwarzschildâ€?s proposal: The notion of GIVENness""; ""3.3. Objections""; ""3.4. E-GIVENness and VP-/IP-ellipsis""; ""3.5. Contrastivity and VP-ellipsis""; ""4. The syntax-phonology interface""; ""4.1. The derivation of intonation by phase""; ""4.2. The derivation of ellipsis by phase""; ""5. Conclusion""; ""Chapter 3: VP-anaphora and ellipsis of VP in English and German""
""1. Introduction""""1.1. In search of VP -ellipsis in German""; ""1.2. Roadmap""; ""2. The representation of ellipsis""; ""2.1. The proform hypothesis vs. the PF-deletion hypothesis""; ""2.2. VP-ellipsis: Arguments for an empty proform account""; ""2.3. German VPA patterns with English VPE""; ""2.4. Evidence from English for the derivational account of VPE""; ""3. German auch-ellipsis""; ""3.1. Ellipsis of VP in German""; ""3.2. Auch-ellipsis is a case of contrastive remnant ellipsis or stripping""; ""3.3. A sideward movement account of contrastive remnant ellipsis""
Keywords: Ellipse (Linguistique); Focus (Linguistique); Grammaire générative; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax; Focus (Linguistics); Generative grammar; Grammar, Comparative and general / Ellipsis; Ellipse <Linguistik>; Thema-Rhema-Gliederung; Generative Grammatik; Grammatik; Linguistik; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Ellipsis; Ellipse -- Linguistik; Hochschulschrift