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ELLIPSIS AND NONSENTENTIAL SPEECH
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| By: |
Reinaldo Elugardo (Editor), Robert J. Stainton (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
1402023006 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781402023002 |
| Publisher: |
SPRINGER-VERLAG NEW YORK INC. |
| Pub. date: |
10 May, 2005 |
| Edition: |
2005 ed. |
| Series: |
Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy 81 |
| Pages: |
266 |
| Description: |
Addresses two main topics: what is the nature, and especially the scope, of ellipsis in natural language? What are the linguistic/philosophical implications of what one takes the nature/scope of ellipsis to be? Each of these main topics includes a sub-part that deals specifically with nonsentential speech. |
| Synopsis: |
The papers in this volume address two main topics: Q1: What is the nature, and especially the scope, of ellipsis in natural l- guage? Q2: What are the linguistic/philosophical implications of what one takes the nature/scope of ellipsis to be? As will emerge below, each of these main topics includes a large sub-part that deals speci?cally with nonsentential speech. Within the ?rst main topic, Q1, there arises the sub-issueofwhethernonsententialspeechfallswithinthescopeofellipsisornot;within the second main topic, Q2, there arises the sub-issue of what linguistic/philosophical implications follow, if nonsentential speech does/does not count as ellipsis. I. THE NATURE AND SCOPE OF ELLIPSIS A. General Issue: How Many Natural Kinds? There are many things to which the label `ellipsis' can be readily applied. But it's quite unclear whether all of them belong in a single natural kind. To explain, consider a view, assumed in Stainton (2000), Stainton (2004a), and elsewhere. It is the view that there are fundamentally (at least) three very different things that readily get called `ellipsis', each belonging to a distinct kind. First, there is the very broad phenomenon of a speaker omitting information which the hearer is expected to make use of in interpreting an utterance. Included therein, possibly as a special case, is the use of an abbreviated form of speech, when one could have used a more explicit expression. (See Neale (2000) and Sellars (1954) for more on this idea. |
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VII, 266 p. |
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US |
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Springer-Verlag New York Inc. |
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