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Subject: 30.733, Books: The Oxford Handbook of Ellipsis: van Craenenbroeck, Temmerman (eds.)

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Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 11:29:25
From: Alyssa Russell [Alyssa.Russell at oup.com]
Subject: The Oxford Handbook of Ellipsis: van Craenenbroeck, Temmerman (eds.)

 


Title: The Oxford Handbook of Ellipsis 
Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-ellipsis-9780198712398 


Editor: Jeroen van Craenenbroeck
Editor: Tanja Temmerman

Hardback: ISBN:  9780198712398 Pages: 1152 Price: U.S. $ 199.00


Abstract:

This handbook is the first volume to provide a comprehensive, in-depth, and
balanced discussion of ellipsis phenomena, whereby the meaning of an utterance
is richer than would be expected based solely on its linguistic form. Natural
language abounds in these apparently incomplete expressions, such as I laughed
but Ed didn't, in which the final portion of the sentence, the verb 'laugh',
remains unpronounced but is still understood. The range of phenomena involved
raise general and fundamental questions about the workings of grammar, but
also constitute a treasure trove of fine-grained points of inter- and
intralinguistic variation.

The volume is divided into four parts. In the first, authors examine the role
that ellipsis plays and how it is analysed in different theoretical frameworks
and linguistic subdisciplines, such as HPSG, construction grammar, inquisitive
semantics, and computational linguistics. Chapters in the second part
highlight the usefulness of ellipsis as a diagnostic tool for other linguistic
phenomena including movement and islands and codeswitching, while part III
focuses instead on the types of elliptical constructions found in natural
language, such as sluicing, gapping, and null complement anaphora. Finally,
the last part of the book contains case studies that investigate elliptical
phenomena in a wide variety of languages, including Dutch, Japanese, Persian,
and Finnish Sign Language.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Pragmatics
                     Semantics
                     Syntax
                     Typology


Written In: English  (eng)

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