Linguists look at two common phenomena in natural languages: ellipsis--leaving out some of the meaning in such a way that the missing part is implied--and parenthesis--adding information that is not strictly needed in the logic of the sentence. Their topics include sluicing and the inquisitive potential of appositives, heads must be heard: overtness and ellipsis licensing, syntactic hypotheses about so-called "que-deletion" in French, the inherent syntactic incompleteness of right node raising, and intonation phrases and speech acts. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
This volume presents a cross-section of research addressing the interaction of two prominent areas in linguistic theory: parenthesis and ellipsis. The contributions address various theoretical questions raised by 'incomplete' parenthetical constituents, covering a diverse empirical domain and various subfields of linguistics.
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