Gapping and Related Rules.
Expert InsightsPublished 1970
The English rule of Gapping, which accounts for such sentences as [Max plays krummhorn] [and Boris fluegelhorn], is investigated in detail. It is contrasted with the rule VP deletion, which produces [Max plays sax] [and Boris does too]; the two rules are shown to have rather different environments. The existence of the rules N-Gapping and N-Deletion is demonstrated, and these rules are also shown to be distinct. The two N rules are then shown to generalize with Gapping and VP Deletion respectively, under the theory of syntactic nodes as matrices of distinctive features introduced in Chomsky's "Remarks on Nominalizations." 23 pp. Bibliog.
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- Year: 1970
- Pages: 23
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.7249/pubs
- Document Number: P-4299
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