Right Node Raising and Gapping: Interface Conditions on Prosodic DeletionJohn Benjamins Publishing, 01/01/2000 - 190 من الصفحات This book investigates two elliptical coordinations in German, Right Node Raising and Gapping. Ellipsis in both constructions is claimed to be the result of a phonological process which is conditioned by prosodic and focus semantic constraints. It is convincingly argued that Right Node Raising cannot involve raising to the right periphery: The alleged movement freely violates any of the well-known restrictions on syntactic movement and it does not alter the scope relations within the coordination. Gapping in contrast is more sensitive to syntactic conditions in that its remnants must be major syntactic constituents. The author carefully examines the close connection between focus and ellipsis in the two constructions. A considered discussion of focus structure demonstrates that the conjuncts are informationally dependent on each other. This co-dependence is also reflected in their particular intonational contour which is argued to be responsible for ellipsis in coordination. |
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adjoined ähnliche anaphor argued argument assume binding Büring c-commanded clitic complement conjunction reduction Constraint contained context contour contrastive focus coordinated structures correspondents d-structure deaccenting deletion direct object discussed DP-coordination elements ellipsis Empty Subject extraposed extraposition F-feature F-marked finite verb foci focus constructions focus features focus projection focus value following example Gapping construction German given grammatical Harvard Bridge head identical illustrated interpretation intonational phrase John Karl kaufte Klaus kochte Kürbis Large Conjunct license Maria Martin Mary Maximal Contrast Principle maximal projection Movement Theory narrow focus nuclear accent Oirsouw Peter phonological phrase phonological word pitch accent popstars preceding the target predicate logic predicts preposition prominence pronoun prosodic constituent prosodic phrasing prosodic structure quantifier respect Right Node Raising RNR constructions RNR target Rooth rules second conjunct Selkirk semantic sentence similar Spargel stress Swingle's syllable syntactic syntax t₁ tone Truckenbrodt 1995b ungrammatical violates wide focus