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Format: 1 online resource (259 pages).

Edition: 1st ed.

Series Statement: Studies in Germanic linguistics (SIGL) ; Volume 2

Content: This book develops a grammar model for discourse ellipses in spoken Norwegian. Two major questions are addressed. Firstly, is there active syntactic structure in the ellipsis site? Secondly, how are discourse ellipses licensed? It is argued that both structural and semantic restrictions are required to account for the empirical patterns.

Note: Intro -- Norwegian Discourse Ellipsis -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Characteristics of spontaneous speech -- 1.2 Types of fragments and ellipses -- 1.2.1 Structural ellipses -- 1.2.2 Performance governed apocopes in spoken language -- 1.2.3 Freestanding constituents -- 1.2.4 Discourse ellipses -- 1.2.5 Elliptical data from written registers -- 1.3 A distinct grammar for spontaneous speech? -- 1.3.1 Same grammar or different grammars? -- 1.3.2 Dialogism versus monologism -- 1.4 Well-formedness in discourse ellipses -- 1.5 Collection of data -- 1.6 Overview of the book -- Chapter 2. Null arguments in generative theory -- 2.1 Pro drop and zero topic -- 2.2 German subject/object asymmetries -- 2.3 The null constant -- 2.4 Null subjects in abbreviated registers - structural truncation? -- 2.5 Fundament ellipsis in Swedish -- 2.6 Towards a uniform approach to null arguments -- 2.7 The need for an empirical and theoretical broadening -- Chapter 3. Foundations of a grammar model -- 3.1 A selective approach to meaning: Grammar semantics -- 3.2 A weak interpretation of the principle of full identification -- 3.3 Endoskeletal versus exoskeletal theories -- 3.3.1 Lexically driven grammars -- 3.3.2 The exoskeletal alternative -- 3.3.3 Five syntactic frames in Norwegian -- Chapter 4. A g-semantic syntax with insertion slots -- 4.1 Syntactic terminals - the building blocks -- 4.2 Empty slots for insertion -- 4.3 Separationism in the functional domain -- 4.4 Clausal architecture -- 4.4.1 CP - Illocutionary force and speech acts -- 4.4.2 TP - a tense operator -- 4.4.3 A predication operator in PrP -- 4.4.4 An exoskeletal approach to VP -- 4.4.5 The ontology of lexical semantics -- 4.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 5. Silent structure and feature construal. , 5.1 The structure question -- 5.2 Agreement and valuation of phi-features -- 5.2.1 Active agreement features in the ellipsis site -- 5.2.2 Checking by valuation -- 5.2.3 Semantic agreement -- 5.2.4 An alternative analysis: Feature construal -- 5.2.5 Feature construal in discourse ellipses -- Chapter 6. Semantic licensing restrictions -- 6.1 Phonological deletion -- 6.2 Deletion through movement -- 6.3 Semantic identity and structural licensing restrictions -- 6.4 Recoverability of deletion -- 6.4.1 The original principle -- 6.4.2 Expanded use of the principle - recoverability in context -- 6.4.3 Strategies for identification -- 6.5 Shortcomings of the recoverability condition -- 6.5.1 Expletive subjects and copula verbs -- 6.5.2 Structural licensing -- 6.6 Processing discourse ellipses -- Chapter 7. Structural licensing conditions -- 7.1 The vulnerability of the C-domain -- 7.1.1 The C-domain as an interface to discourse -- 7.1.2 Preposed elements in [spec,CP]: topic and focus -- 7.1.3 Non-sentence initial discourse ellipses -- 7.1.4 Person restrictions on topic drop -- 7.1.5 Interacting syntactic and semantic restrictions -- 7.2 The CP-TP connection - silence under agree -- 7.2.1 Empirical patterns -- 7.2.2 No CP in subject-initial clauses? -- 7.2.3 Feature inheritance from C to T - a phase-based analysis -- 7.2.4 Silence under agree -- 7.3 Agreement and silence in the C - T complex -- 7.3.1 Omitted topicalized subject -- 7.3.2 Omitted topicalized object -- 7.3.3 Omitted topicalized subject and auxiliary -- 7.3.4 Omission of topicalized object and auxiliary is impossible -- 7.3.5 Ellipsis in yes/no questions -- 7.3.6 Lexical verbs versus modal and perfective auxiliaries -- 7.4 Why is there a subject/object asymmetry in the C-domain? -- Chapter 8. Concluding remarks -- 8.1 Empirical and theoretical contributions -- 8.2 Prospects -- References. , Empirical sources -- Appendix -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 4 -- Index.

Additional Edition: ISBN 90-272-0039-4

Additional Edition: ISBN 90-272-6437-6

Language: English