Parasitic Gaps

by Peter W. Culicover and Paul M. Postal (Eds.)

• ISBN13: 9780262032841
• ISBN10: 0262032848
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-08
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

This book offers a comprehensive survey of research on parasitic gaps, an intriguing syntactic phenomenon. The first section of the book contains a history of work on the topic and three fundamental previously published papers. The remaining three sections present new perspectives on the theory of parasitic gaps based on data taken from diverse languages. Contributors: Michael Calcagno, Peter W. Culicover, Elisabet Engdahl, Robert Hukari, Andreas Kathol, Christopher Kennedy, Katalin E. Kiss, Robert Levine, Alan Munn, Jamal Ouhalla, Paul M. Postal, Christine Tellier.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
PART I Some Historical Background	1	(124)
Parasitic Gaps: A History	3	(66)
Peter W. Culicover
Parasitic Gaps	69	(30)
Elisabet Engdahl
Parasitic Chains Revisited	99	(26)
Katalin E. Kiss
PART II What Is a Parasitic Gap?	125	(126)
Versatile Parasitic Gaps	127	(20)
Elisabet Engdahl
Parasitic Gaps and Resumptive Pronouns	147	(34)
Jamal Ouhalla
Parasitic Gaps in English: Some Overlooked Cases and Their Theoretical Implications	181	(42)
Robert D. Levine
Thomas E. Hukari
Michael Calcagno
Further Lacunae in the English Parasitic Gap Paradigm	223	(28)
Paul M. Postal
PART III What Is Not a Parasitic Gap?	251	(88)
Parasitic and Pseudoparasitic Gaps	253	(62)
Paul M. Postal
On the Nonexistence of True Parasitic Gaps in Standard German	315	(24)
Andreas Kathol
PART IV Restrictions on Parasitic Gaps	339	(80)
On Some Distinctive Properties of Parasitic Gaps in French	341	(28)
Christine Tellier
Explaining Parasitic Gap Restrictions	369	(24)
Alan Munn
VP-Deletion and ``Nonparasitic Gaps''	393	(10)
Christopher Kennedy
Missing Parasitic Gaps	403	(16)
Paul M. Postal
References	419	(20)
Author Index	439	(2)
Subject Index	441