Ellipsis And Focus In Generative Grammar

ISBN: 9783110186017 出版年：2011 页码：308 Winkler, Susanne De Gruyter Mouton

Covering linguistic research on empty categories over more than three decades, this monograph presents the result of an in-depth syntactic and focus-theoretical investigation of ellipsis in generative grammar. The phenomenon of ellipsis most generally reefers to the omission of linguistic material, structure and sound. The central aim of this book is to explain on the basis of linguistic theorizing of how it is possible that we understand more than we actually hear. The answer developed throughout thi