Fragments and ellipsis Export

@article{Merchant04, abstract = {Fragmentary utterances such as 'short' answers and subsentential XPs without linguistic antecedents are proposed to have fully sentential syntactic structures, subject to ellipsis. Ellipsis in these cases is preceded by A
-movement of the fragment to a clause-peripheral position; the combination of movement and ellipsis accounts for a wide range of connectivity and anti-connectivity effects in these structures. Fragment answers furthermore shed light on the nature of islands, and contrast with sluicing in triggering island effects; this is shown to follow from an articulated syntax and the PF theory of islands. Fragments without linguistic antecedents are argued to be compatible with an ellipsis analysis, and do not support direct interpretation approaches to these phenomena.}, author = {Merchant, Jason}, citeulike-article-id = {93503}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10988-005-7378-3}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/ling/2005/00000027/00000006/00007378}, doi = {10.1007/s10988-005-7378-3}, issn = {0165-0157}, journal = {Linguistics and Philosophy}, keywords = {cognition, ellipsis, linguistics, semantics, syntax}, month = {January}, number = {6}, pages = {661--738}, posted-at = {2008-07-08 14:36:52}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Kluwer Academic Publishers}, title = {Fragments and ellipsis}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10988-005-7378-3}, volume = {27}, year = {2004} }

TY - JOUR ID - Merchant04 L3 - citeulike-article-id:93503 N2 - Fragmentary utterances such as ‘short’ answers and subsentential XPs without linguistic antecedents are proposed to have fully sentential syntactic structures, subject to ellipsis. Ellipsis in these cases is preceded by A
-movement of the fragment to a clause-peripheral position; the combination of movement and ellipsis accounts for a wide range of connectivity and anti-connectivity effects in these structures. Fragment answers furthermore shed light on the nature of islands, and contrast with sluicing in triggering island effects; this is shown to follow from an articulated syntax and the PF theory of islands. Fragments without linguistic antecedents are argued to be compatible with an ellipsis analysis, and do not support direct interpretation approaches to these phenomena. IS - 6 JF - Linguistics and Philosophy SN - 0165-0157 EP - 738 TI - Fragments and ellipsis PB - Kluwer Academic Publishers VL - 27 SP - 661 KW - cognition KW - ellipsis KW - linguistics KW - semantics KW - syntax AU - Merchant, Jason PY - 2004/01// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10988-005-7378-3 ER -