Ellipsis

Functional Heads, Licensing, and Identification

By: Anne Lobeck

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Hardcover | 1 June 1997

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This book elaborates a theory of ellipsis that sheds new light on a well-known phenomenon, bringing it under the aegis of general and universal principles. Lobeck argues that ellipted categories in IP (VP Ellipsis), DP (N' Ellipsis), and CP (Sluicing) are empty, non-referential pronominals, subject to the same licensing and identification conditions as referential pro. She proposes that both types of empty pronominals must be licensed under head-government to satisfy the Empty Category Principle, and identified through strong agreement. In the case of ellipsis, agreement-type features make the empty category visible to interpretive processes of reconstruction. These licensing and identification conditions derive the result that ellipses are complements of functional categories DET, COMP, and INFL, but not of lexical categories. The analysis is supported by contrastive evidence from ellipsis in French and German, in which licensing and identification interact with Verb Raising, feature checking, and a parameter defining "strong" agreement.

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"This book is marvelous--it gives an elegant analysis for an amazing range of complicated data in various languages."--Notes on Linguistics "This book is marvelous--it gives an elegant analysis for an amazing range of complicated data in various languages."--Notes on Linguistics

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Introduction	p. 3
Ellipsis in Government-Binding Theory	p. 7
Strong Agreement, Licensing, and Identification	p. 41
Two Functional Heads in English DP	p. 71
Ellipsis in German and French Noun Phrases: The Ellipsis Identification Parameter	p. 101
VP Ellipsis in English, French, and German Tensed Clauses	p. 141
VP Ellipsis in English Infinitives	p. 165
References	p. 193
Index	p. 203
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