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Negation in Gapping

Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics

von: Sophie Repp
60,61 €
Verlag:	OUP Oxford
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	22.01.2009
ISBN/EAN:	9780191562471
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	114

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This book presents a cross-linguistic investigation of the behaviour of negation in gapping sentences. Sophie Repp focusses on German and English with reference to Dutch, Japanese, Polish, Russian, and Slovak. She shows that these languages exhibit important differences in the interaction of gapping and negation and further that no account in the literature explains why this should be. Dr Repp also argues that the precise interpretation of an elided negation dependson varying combinations of syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and prosodic factors. Illustrating her argument by the interpretation of the negation in examples such as &quote;Pete hasn't got a video and John a DVD&quote;, &quote;Pete didn't clean the whole flat and John laze around all afternoon&quote;, and &quote;To Mary, Petedidn't say anything and to Sue, only that he was hungry&quote;, Dr Repp questions a basic assumption in the analysis of gapping: that the meaning of the two conjuncts must be parallel in the elided material. This leads her to a wide-ranging discussion of the interpretation of scope and the nature of negation. She then proposes a syntactic analysis that both takes into account the interaction of the grammatical interfaces and is at the same time compatible with more general assumptions of currentgenerative theory. She concludes by considering the implications of her findings for linguistic theory more generally.