[lit-ideas] "What About ...": -- Geary's Ellipsisticals

  • From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 21:30:42 EDT

 
Geary wrote:
 
>>this is what I call an ellipsistical 
>>(construction)
 
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fyi, a new work on ellipsis, distributed by LINGUIST:
 
_www.linguist.org_ (http://www.linguist.org) .:
 
""Ellipsis" investigates a number of elliptical
constructions  within the framework of the
Minimalist Program. It is argued that both the  PF-deletion and the
pro-theory of ellipsis are needed to account for the full  range of
elliptical phenomena attested in natural language.
One  particular case of stranding to the right of a sluiced wh-phrase: 
prepositions  in
English (What about?). The phenonemon is given a
PF-deletion analysis,  which turns out to have considerable
repercussions for the structure of the  left periphery and the syntax
of wh-movement. 
 
Specifically, while minimal wh-phrases move from  their
IP-internal base position to specCP, complex ones are  base-generated
in the (split) left periphery."

 

It would be interesting to list listers' favorite ellipsistical  
constructions.
 
Cheers,
 
JL





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