This paper reports the results of a usage-based study of gapping (as in “I ate fish, Bill [ ] rice, and Harry [ ] roast beef”), one of the most extensively studied syntactic constructions in English...
Keywords: gapping, English coordination, information flow, clarity, stylistics, corpus linguistics
00/0000 | Corpus Linguistics and Lingustic Theory, Walter de GruyterThe paper presents a dependency grammar theory of non-gapping coordination. The approach draws a distinction between standard cases of coordination – called String Coordination – and gapping...
Keywords: Coordination, dependency grammar, constituency grammar, shared material, gapping, constituent structure
06/2006 | Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, Walter de Gruyter