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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812730803321

Autore

Lobeck Anne C

Titolo

Ellipsis : functional heads, licensing, and identification / / Anne Lobeck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1995

ISBN

0-19-772158-3

1-280-52760-9

0-19-535793-0

1-4294-0660-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Ellipsis

Generative grammar

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1995.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Ellipsis in Government-Binding Theory -- 2. Strong Agreement, Licensing, and Identification -- 3. Two Functional Heads in English DP -- 4. Ellipsis in German and French Noun Phrases: The Ellipsis Identification Parameter -- 5. VP Ellipsis in English, French, and German Tensed Clauses -- 6. VP Ellipsis in English Infinitives.

Sommario/riassunto

This treatise elaborates a theory of ellipsis which brings the phenomenon under the aegis of very general and universal principles. It argues that the Empty Category Principle (ECP) constrains the distribution of ellipsis, just as it constrains the distributions of traces and null pronouns.