The Oxford Handbook of Ellipsis

1111 Pages·2018·33.024 MB·English

by  Jeroen van Craenenbroeck (editor), Tanja Temmerman (editor)

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Edited by Jeroen van Craenenbroeck and Tanja Temmerman
The Oxford Handbook of Ellipsis
Edited by Jeroen van Craenenbroeck and Tanja Temmerman
Print Publication Date: Dec 2018 Subject: Linguistics Online Publication Date: Jan 2019
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List of Figures and Tables
(p. ix)
Figures
7.1 Contrast (left) and elaboration (right) 166
9.1 Processing John upset Mary in DS 214
9.2 Unfolding structure for John upset… 217
9.3 Result of parsing John, who smokes, left 218
9.4 DS parsing context as a graph: Actions (edges) are transitions between partial
trees (nodes) 220
9.5 Substitution from context at the ellipsis site of (24): Pronominal anaphora (top)
and VP-ellipsis (bottom) 221
9.6 Action replay from context at the ellipsis site 222
9.7 A short answer with binding restrictions 224
9.8 Incremental development of Mary’s/Bob’s context via processing words 226
9.9 Processing Chorlton? in ‘A: the doctor B: Chorlton?’ 226
9.10 Incremental interpretation of self-repair by replaying DS actions in the Context
DAG 229
9.11 Successful processing of John interviewed every student who Bill had 231
9.12 Ungrammaticality of (39) as impossibility to unify unfixed node with object of
interview in second relative clause 231
15.1 Pitch extraction analysis of the VPE in (1): Distribution of pitch accents and
prosodic boundaries 359
15.2 Pitch extraction analysis of gapping in (5): Parallel contrastive accents and
prosodic boundaries 361
15.3 Pitch extraction analysis of (8c): Violation of pairwise contrast in gapping 363
15.4 Pitch extraction contour of RNR in (22): Licensing pitch accents and boundary
tones 367
15.5 Pitch extraction contour of extraction from VPE 382
15.6 Pitch extraction contour of topicalization from VPE in a relative clause 385
17.1 Experimental stimuli 434
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List of Figures and Tables
(p. x) 20.1 A partial taxonomy of sluicing, based on the underlying syntax of the
sluice 483
29.1 FinSL verbals with the meanings (from left to right) ‘know’ (the finger pads of
the open hand touch the forehead twice), ‘teach [someone in front of the signer]’ (the
two hands move forward twice in the shown configuration), and ‘an oblong vehicle
(e.g. a bicycle) drives forward over a mound-like location’ (the dominant hand articu­
lates an arc-shaped movement over the stationary non-dominant hand). The verbals
represent Type 1, Type 2, and Type 3, respectively (see also Figure 29.2) 767
29.2 FinSL Type 2 verbal TEACH as used in the elliptical clause (7). Note that the
signer also employs constructed action to show the imaginary locations of the refer­
ents 775
29.3 Video frames showing the production of the sentence (17) 783
Tables
1.1 Overview of Part I of the handbook: Abstract structure, recoverability, and licens­
ing 8
1.2 Overview of Part IV of the handbook: Cross-linguistic distribution of the main el­
lipsis types 13
1.3 Overview of the cross-linguistic distribution of various subtypes of predicate el­
lipsis 14
2.1 Some previous research on the two ellipsis questions 22
4.1 A taxonomy for clarification requests (Purver 2006) 84
4.2 Dialogue gameboard 104
8.1 Commonly discussed constructions that involve ellipsis 189
8.2 Non-elliptical versions of the attested examples of ellipsis in Table 8.1 190
8.3 Less often discussed constructions that involve ellipsis, with examples and refer­
ences 198
12.1 Average percentages of ‘yes’ responses broken down over condition and lan­
guage from Wijnen et al. (2003) 308
17.1 Test conditions: VPE sentence + images 432
17.2 Control condition: Coordination + images 432
17.3 Experimental conditions 433
17.4 Patients’ demographic and clinical profiles 434
17.5 Number of accurate responses per condition for each patient on the VPE test
434
(p. xi) 17.6 Examples of spontaneous production of VPE by children 439
17.7 Test Condition: VPE + images 440
17.8 Control condition: Coordination + images 441
17.9 Experimental results 442
29.1 Ellipsis of A and P core arguments in the sample of 381 transitive clauses con­
taining a Type 1 or Type 2 verbal predicate 770
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The Contributors
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The Contributors
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Klaus Abels

received his PhD from the University of Connecticut in 2003. He is a Reader in Lin­
guistics at University College London and co-editor of the journal Syntax. His main in­
terests relate to movement, constraints on movement, interactions of movement
types, the formal modeling of movement, and the role of movement in deriving word
order typology.

Lobke Aelbrecht

obtained her PhD at the Catholic University of Brussels in 2009 with a thesis entitled
‘You have the right to remain silent: The syntactic licensing of ellipsis’. Her main re­
search interests are ellipsis, VP topicalization and VP pronominalization, and the
Dutch adpositional domain. In 2010, she published the monograph The syntactic li­
censing of ellipsis (John Benjamins).

Scott AnderBois

is Assistant Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences at Brown
University. His primary research focus is on the ways in which utterances interact
with the discourse “scoreboard,” with a particular focus on to what extent and in
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