Focus and Ellipsis : a generative analysis of pseudogapping and other elliptical structures

Abstract

The dissertation provides a generative analysis of Pseudogapping and other ellipsis phenomena, notably Sluicing, Gapping, VP Ellipsis, and NP Ellipsis. The major claim of the proposed analysis is that these ellipsis structures can receive a uniform account, and are derived by means of syntactic focus movement of the remnant and/or a deletion operation at the level of phonological form (PF). The dissertation also provides novel data of constructions that resemble English Pseudogapping, including data from the Scandinavian languages, French, and Portuguese.

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