22.5107, Diss: General Ling/Semantics/Syntax: Kluck: 'Sentence Amalgamation ...'

[linguist at LINGUISTLIST.ORG]

LINGUIST List: Vol-22-5107. Mon Dec 19 2011. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 22.5107, Diss: General Ling/Semantics/Syntax: Kluck: 'Sentence Amalgamation ...'

Moderators: Anthony Aristar, Eastern Michigan U <aristar at linguistlist.org>
            Helen Aristar-Dry, Eastern Michigan U <hdry at linguistlist.org>

Reviews: Veronika Drake, U of Wisconsin-Madison
Monica Macaulay, U of Wisconsin-Madison
Rajiv Rao, U of Wisconsin-Madison
Joseph Salmons, U of Wisconsin-Madison
Anja Wanner, U of Wisconsin-Madison
       <reviews at linguistlist.org>

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

The LINGUIST List is funded by Eastern Michigan University,
and donations from subscribers and publishers.

Editor for this issue: Xiyan Wang <xiyan at linguistlist.org>
================================================================  
Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated
from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:
          http://multitree.linguistlist.org/
					
					
To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at
http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm.

===========================Directory==============================  

1)
Date: 16-Dec-2011
From: Marlies Kluck [m.e.kluck at rug.nl]
Subject: Sentence Amalgamation


-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:38:22
From: Marlies Kluck [m.e.kluck at rug.nl]
Subject: Sentence Amalgamation

E-mail this message to a friend:
http://linguistlist.org/issues/emailmessage/verification.cfm?iss=22-5107.html&submissionid=4537793&topicid=14&msgnumber=1
 
Institution: University of Groningen 
Program: Linguistics 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2011 

Author: Marlies Kluck

Dissertation Title: Sentence Amalgamation 

Dissertation URL:  http://www.let.rug.nl/kluck/Kluck2011_dissertatie.pdf

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Semantics
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)
                     English (eng)
                     German (deu)


Dissertation Director(s):
Mark de Vries
Henk van Riemsdijk
Jack Hoeksema
Jan Koster
Jason Merchant

Dissertation Abstract:

This thesis sheds new light on an old puzzle in linguistics: the intriguing
phenomenon of sentence amalgamation, where two clauses are intertwined and
seem to revolve around a pivot constituent, the 'content kernel'. The
clauses involved, the matrix and the 'interrupting' clause, are root
clauses, which are syntactically opaque to each other. The content kernel
itself, however, is mysterious in this regard: it appears to be accessible
for the matrix as well as the interrupting clause, and the position of the
interrupting clause in the matrix seems to depend on the category of the
content kernel. I argue that the content kernel is in fact the remnant of
sluicing, and A'-moves out of an ellipsis site in the interrupting clause.
The apparent transparency of the content kernel then follows directly from
reconstruction. This idea also accounts for a number of other well-attested
properties of sluicing that resonate in amalgams: case matching,
cross-linguistic variation related to preposition stranding and
island-insensitivity. A detailed study of the interpretation of amalgams
reveals that interrupting clauses can only express speaker-oriented
content, which concerns precisely the missing matrix constituent. This is
evidence for an analysis in terms of anchored parenthesis. Putting this
together with the sluicing approach, the correspondence between the content
kernel and its position in the matrix is ultimately derived via a general
licensing condition for sluicing. 





-----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-22-5107	
----------------------------------------------------------
Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated
from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:
          http://multitree.linguistlist.org/