| description |
Jan-Wouter Zwart. 2017. Gapping without gaps. In Nicholas LaCara, Keir Moulton, and Anne-Michelle Tessier, eds., A Schrift to Fest Kyle Johnson, 419-427. Amherst: ScholarWorks@UMass. Linguistics Open Access Publications 1. |
| type | Invited Festschrift contribution. |
| ID | 2017b | 165 | DOI | March 29, 2017. |
| origin | The layered derivations analysis of gapping presented here was developed about ten years ago for a lecture in Utrecht, and never made into published form. |
| keywords | gapping; minimalism; ellipsis; coordination; Dutch; VP-movement; layered derivations |
| summary | This squib supports Johnson’s contention that ellipsis is not involved in gapping. However, I note several problems with his specific proposal, suggesting across-the-board movement is not the way to go either. These problems have to do with the symmetric nature of coordination in gapping constructions, and with the nature of gapping in Dutch, where the proposed analysis can be shown not to work. I end by proposing an even more radical ellipsis-free analysis of gapping. |
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full text Presentations: Utrecht lecture, 11/2007; lecture at MASL Budapest, 08/2009 |
