Focus constraints on ellipsis - an unalternatives account
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This paper presents a new account of the generalization that focused elements cannotbe elided, framed within Unalternative Semantics, a framework that does away with syntacticF-marking. We propose the mirror image of the generalization: what is elided cannot introducealternatives. We implement this as a focus restriction in UAS and then go on to show howto account for MAXELIDE effects using the same technique, without making reference to anytransderivational constraints.Keywords: focus, ellipsis, alternative semantics, unalternative semantics, MaxElide, secondaryfocus.
- University of Vienna Austria
- Goethe University Frankfurt Germany
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet Germany
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ddc:400, 602004 Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, ddc:410, 602004 General linguistics, 410, 400, ddc: ddc:410, ddc: ddc:400
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