Syntax of scilence (VP-ellipsis/gapping and IP-ellipsis/slucing) in Czech and English, or : how to obtain and theoretically describe something that is not visible in the corpus?
- Despite the stated primary goal of this article to investigate sluicing, any discussion of the general conditions on ellipsis must begin with the best investigated case, VP ellipsis in Czech and English. I therefore start with these cases, describing the general results and theoretical findings in this area, and then move to a theory of sluicing (IP-ellipsis) in order to discover how these results apply to a more sophisticated theory of focus- and isomorphism-requirements (e.g. Merchand 2001; Tancredi 1992; Rooth (1992). Finally we turn to the most important question of this study: we ask, how these theoretical findings can be applied to corpus data. We assume that both VP-e. and IP-e. are only licensed under the condition of focus feature marking, but not purely as a requirement on isomorphism of two adjunct structures.
Metadaten| Author details: | Peter KostaORCiDGND |
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| ISBN: | 80-210-3595-1 |
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| Publication type: | Article |
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| Language: | English |
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| Year of first publication: | 2004 |
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| Publication year: | 2004 |
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| Release date: | 2017/03/24 |
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| Source: | Korpus jako zdroj dat o cestine (Corpus as a data source for Czech) / Hrsg.: Petr Karlik. - Brno : Masarykova univ., 2004. - ISBN 80-210-3595-1. - S. 10 - 27 |
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| Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Slavistik |
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| Peer review: | Nicht referiert |
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