pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
Visit our new collection website www.collectionsforschool.co.uk
     
Email: Subscribe to news & offers:
Need assistance? Log In/Register


Item Details
Title: NEGATION IN GAPPING
By: Sophie Repp
Format: Hardback

List price: £107.50


We currently do not stock this item, please contact the publisher directly for further information.

ISBN 10: 0199543607
ISBN 13: 9780199543601
Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 22 January, 2009
Series: Oxford Studies in Theoretical Linguistics 22
Pages: 284
Description: The first in-depth investigation of gapping and negation shows accepted accounts do not explain differences across languages, and available readings of the negation. The author questions basic assumptions in the analysis of gapping and presents a new syntactic analysis with implications for the interpretation of scope, and the theory of ellipsis.
Synopsis: This book presents a cross-linguistic investigation of the behaviour of negation in gapping sentences. Sophie Repp focusses on German and English with reference to Dutch, Japanese, Polish, Russian, and Slovak. She shows that these languages exhibit important differences in the interaction of gapping and negation and further that no account in the literature explains why this should be. Dr Repp also argues that the precise interpretation of an elided negation depends on varying combinations of syntactic, semantic, pragmatic, and prosodic factors. Illustrating her argument by the interpretation of the negation in examples such as "Pete hasn't got a video and John a DVD", "Pete didn't clean the whole flat and John laze around all afternoon", and "To Mary, Pete didn't say anything and to Sue, only that he was hungry", Dr Repp questions a basic assumption in the analysis of gapping: that the meaning of the two conjuncts must be parallel in the elided material. This leads her to a wide-ranging discussion of the interpretation of scope and the nature of negation.She then proposes a syntactic analysis that both takes into account the interaction of the grammatical interfaces and is at the same time compatible with more general assumptions of current generative theory. She concludes by considering the implications of her findings for linguistic theory more generally.
Illustrations: Line drawings, tree diagrams
Publication: UK
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Returns: Non-returnable
Some other items by this author:

TOP SELLERS IN THIS CATEGORY
Confabulations (Paperback)
Penguin Books Ltd
Our Price : £8.75
more details
The Construction of Social Reality (Paperback)
Penguin Books Ltd
Our Price : £9.48
more details
Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
Oxford University Press
Our Price : £7.29
more details
The Language Instinct (Paperback)
Penguin Books Ltd
Our Price : £9.48
more details
Killing in War (Paperback)
Oxford University Press
Our Price : £18.37
more details
BROWSE FOR BOOKS IN RELATED CATEGORIES
 LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND BIOGRAPHY
 language & linguistics
 philosophy of language


Information provided by www.pickabook.co.uk
SHOPPING BASKET
  
Your basket is empty
  Total Items: 0
 

NEW
World’s Worst Superheroes GET READY FOR SOME SUPERSIZED FUN!
add to basket





New
No Cheese, Please! A fun picture book for children with food allergies - full of friendship and super-cute characters!Little Mo the mouse is having a birthday party.
add to basket

New
My Brother Is a Superhero Luke is massively annoyed about this, but when Zack is kidnapped by his arch-nemesis, Luke and his friends have only five days to find him and save the world...
add to basket


Picture Book
Animal Actions: Snap Like a Crab
By:
The first title in a new preschool series from Guilherme Karsten.
add to basket