Ellipsis in Comparatives
Winfried Lechner
The present monograph represents a theoretical exploration in the domains of ellipsis, coordination and the syntax and semantics of comparison, which at the same time offers a detailed empirical study forcussing on various aspects of the comparative construction. It is argued that two construction specific ellipsis processes generally assumed to be active in comparatives (Comparative Deletion and Comparative Ellipsis) can be subsumed under two groups of operations that are independently required in the grammar: movement and the ellipsis processes of Conjunction Reduction (including Gapping, Right Node Raising and Across-the-Board Extraction). The resulting account also makes it possible to envision an empirically adequate ellipsis analysis of so-called Phrasal Comparatives.
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Ano:
2004
Editora:
Mouton de Gruyter
Idioma:
english
Páginas:
296
ISBN 10:
3110181185
ISBN 13:
9783110181180
Série:
Studies in Generative Grammar 72
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english, 2004