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＜Book＞
The syntax of silence : sluicing, islands, and the theory of ellipsis

Responsibility Jason Merchant
Series Oxford linguistics
Oxford studies in theoretical linguistics ; 1
Material Type Book
Publication Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2001
Language English
Size xiii, 262 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Abstract Two of the best studied and most intriguing areas in syntax and semantics are ellipsis and wh-movement, and although these areas have generated immense interest individually, their intersection - in e...liptical wh-questions known as sluicing - has remained largely neglected. This book fills that gap. It does so on the basis of the most sustained empirical investigation of sluicing ever conducted, drawing on novel data from thirty languages that give rise to a number of surprising and theoretically-challenging generalizations. The author shows that sluicing structures are crucial to answering the fundamental questions about the nature of ellipsis: how ellipsis is resolved, whether there is syntactic structure internal to the ellipsis site, and whether the identity requirement on ellipsis is syntactic or semantic.The author proposes a new and elegant theory of ellipsis based on semantic identity, and shows how this theory overcomes problems encountered by common alternatives based on syntactic isomorphism. He posits that ellipsis sites are syntactically complete, though unpronounced, and provides a novel account of how a semantic theory of ellipsis is compatible with syntactic deletion. The facts of sluicing argue also that our conception of islandhood must be refined in fundamental ways, leading to a pluralistic view of islands, with wh-movement extraction deviancies distributed over different components of the grammar.This work sheds new light on some of the most central and long-standing questions in the study of ellipsis and wh-movement, and has important implications for understanding the relations between syntax and semantics.Jason Merchant writes accessibly for linguists of all schools and persuasions. The issues he addresses will interest theoreticians and typologists, especially syntacticians, semanticists, and those interested in the syntax-semantics interface. show more

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: pbk. Central Library ASRS 英文/6A/524 2001
005212001026891

: pbk. LETTERS, Linguistics Research Room 言語/6A/414 2001
005212001015721

: hbk Central Library 4A 801.5/Me 62 2011
110012024010885

: pbk Central Library ASRS 801.5/Me 62 2001
052212003004121

: pbk Languages and Cultures 801.5/Me 62 2005
058212006007775

Bibliographic details

Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [232]-249) and indexes
Authors *Merchant, Jason
Subjects LCSH:Grammar, Comparative and general -- Ellipsis  All Subject Search
LCSH:Extraction (Linguistics)
LCSH:Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax  All Subject Search
LCSH:Semantics
Classification LCC:P291.3
DC21:415
NDC9:801.5
ID 1000710707
ISBN 0199243735
NCID BA5333720X
Vol : hbk ; ISBN:0199243735
: pbk ; ISBN:0199243727
Created Date 2009.09.15
Modified Date 2009.09.18