Negation in gapping
By: Sophie Repp.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780199543618; 9780199543601
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general -- Negatives; Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The problem and outline of the book; title: Some basic features of gapping; title: Theories of gapping; title: Summary and sketch of the proposal; title: The syntax of clausal negation : the distributed readings in main verb gapping; title: Clausal negation in English and German; title: Adjuncts in gapping; title: The syntax of gapping : proposal; title: The right kind of contrast : narrow scope readings; title: Contrastive but; title: And and the principle of balanced contrast; title: Auxiliary gapping and contrasting Ps; title: Focus particles; title: Summary; title: Negation and the speech act; title: Corrections and corrective but  : more narrow scope readings; title: The wide scope readings; title: Finiteness in gapping; title: Assertion; title: Anchoring; title: Anchoring and gapping.