Fragments: Studies in Ellipsis and Gapping

ISBN-13: 9780195123029 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 320 str.

Shalom Lappin; Elabbas Benmamoun

Opis

This volume contains essays on ellipsis -- the omission of understood words from a sentence -- and the closely related phenomena of gapping. This volume presents work by leading researchers on syntactic, semantic and computational aspects of ellipsis. The chapters bring together a variety of theoretical perspectives and examine a range of cross-linguistic phenomena involving ellipsis in Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew, and in English. This volume will be of interest to syntacticians, semanticists, computational linguists, and cognitive scientists.

Recenzje

This collection approaches all the most thorny questions in a coherent and interesting way ... the contributors are well-respected.