Catalog > Human Sciences > Languages > Linguistics > Elabbas Benmamoun & Shalom Lappin: Fragments (PDF)

Elabbas Benmamoun & Shalom Lappin
Fragments [PDF ebook]
Studies in Ellipsis and Gapping

Support

Cover of Elabbas Benmamoun & Shalom Lappin: Fragments (PDF)

This volume contains essays on ellipsis — the omission of understood words from a sentence — and the closely related phenomena of gapping. This volume presents work by leading researchers on syntactic, semantic and computational aspects of ellipsis. The chapters bring together a variety of theoretical perspectives and examine a range of cross-linguistic phenomena involving ellipsis in Japanese, Arabic, Hebrew, and in English. This volume will be of interest to syntacticians, semanticists, computational linguists, and cognitive scientists.

€90.84

Buy this ebook and get 1 more FREE!

Language English ● Format PDF ● ISBN 9780195352658 ● Editor Elabbas Benmamoun & Shalom Lappin ● Publisher Oxford University Press ● Published 1999 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2277351 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

Requires a DRM capable ebook reader

More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor

Elabbas Benmamoun Shalom Lappin

53,507 Ebooks in this category

Cover of Jonathon Green: Dictionary of Jargon (Routledge Revivals)

Jonathon Green: Dictionary of Jargon (Routledge Revivals)

First published in 1987, the Dictionary of Jargon expands on its predecessor Newspeak (Routledge Revivals, 2014) as an authoritative reference guide to specialist occupational slang, or jargon. Conta …

Cover of William Bechtel: Philosophy of Science

William Bechtel: Philosophy of Science

This text focuses on two major issues: the nature of scientific inquiry and the relations between scientific disciplines. Designed to introduce the basic issues and concepts in the philosophy of scie …

Cover of Ann Banfield: Unspeakable Sentences (Routledge Revivals)

Ann Banfield: Unspeakable Sentences (Routledge Revivals)

First published in 1982, this title grew from a series of essays on various aspects of narrative style; the result is a finished product that melds literary theory with linguistic methodology. It is …

Cover of Keiko Tanaka: Advertising Language

Keiko Tanaka: Advertising Language

Keiko Tanaka offers an analysis of the linguistic devices that are used in advertisements, looking at the strategems which advertisers employ to gain and retain the attention of their audience. Using …

Cover of Barbara H Partee: Subject and Object in Modern English

Barbara H Partee: Subject and Object in Modern English

Subject and Object in Modern English, first published in 1979, deals with subjects in the English language (one of the two main constituents of a clause), first comparing two possible notions of deri …

Cover of William J. Dominik: Roman Eloquence

William J. Dominik: Roman Eloquence

The present volume is part of a general renaissance in the study of rhetoric and bears testimony to a discipline undergoing rapid and exciting change. It draws together established and newer scholars …

Cover of Monika Fludernik: Towards a ''Natural'' Narratology

Monika Fludernik: Towards a ”Natural” Narratology

In this ground breaking work of synthesis, Monika Fludernik combines insights from literary theory and linguistics to provide a challenging new theory of narrative. This book is both an historical su …

Cover of John Edwards: Multilingualism

John Edwards: Multilingualism

HOW DO LANGUAGES LIVE AND DIE? WHAT ROLE DOES TRANSLATION PLAY IN HELPING LANGUAGES TO THRIVE? ARE POLYGLOTS VIEWED WITH SUSPICION, GIVEN THE LINKS BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND IDENTITY? IS THE MAINTENANCE A …

Cover of Kaisa (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) Koskinen: Translating Institutions

Kaisa (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) Koskinen: Translating Institutions

Translating Institutions outlines a framework for research on translation in institutional settings, using the Finnish translation unit at the European Commission as a case study. Because of their fo …

Cover of Christine Bartels: The Intonation of English Statements and Questions

Christine Bartels: The Intonation of English Statements and Questions

English sentence prosody provides cues to both focus structure and speaker attitude. Taking the phonological model of intonation developed by Pierrehumbert (1880 et seq.) as point of departure, this …