The papers of the volume mirror the ongoing debate on approaches towards two related topics: conjunction and ellipsis. The major issues are the syntactic relationship between the conjuncts, the syntactic category of the conjunction words, the size of the conjuncts, the syntactic and semantic status of the null elements, and semantic and information structural restrictions. A wide range of facts from various languages are explored in relation to phrasal coordination, Gapping, Pseudogapping, VP-ellipsis, and Sluicing.

Autorentext
Ning Zhang, geb. Jahr 1977, Diplom-Kaufmann, BWL-Studium an der Universität Duisburg-Essen, Campus Essen. Abschluss 2008 als Diplom-Kaufmann. Derzeit tätig als Financial Analyst im Bereich von High Technologies. Dr. med. Kerstin Schwabe: Jahrgang 1958; Medizinstudium und Promotion in Berlin. 1980 Ausbildung in Akupunktur und TCM bei der Ärtzekammer Nordrhein-Westfalen/Lippe. Ausbildung in Medizinischem Qi Gong und Guolin-Qigong. In eigener Praxis tätig seit 1991.

Klappentext
Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory.

Inhalt

Contents: Alan Munn, Three Types of Coordination Asymmetries. - José Camacho, On the Structure of Conjunction. - John te Velde, Assumptions about the Structure of Coordination. - David Lightfood, Ellipses as Clitics. - Kyle Johnson, Gapping Determiners. - Cedric Boeckx, An Additional Note on Pseudogapping. - Ricardo Extepare/Kleanthes K. Grohmann, Conjunction of Infinitival Exclamatives and the Null Modal Hypothesis. - Ning Zhang, On Chinese Verbless Constructions. - Satoshi Oku, Definite and Indefinite Strict Identity in VP-Ellipsis. - Maribel Romero, Antecedentless Sluiced Wh-Phrases and Islands. - Susanne Winkler, Silent Copy and Polarity Focus in VP-Ellipsis. - Kerstin Schwabe, Coordinate Ellipsis and Information Structure.