MOVEMENT IN GAPPING CONSTRUCTIONS

Gapping: Movement or Deletion

Based on Johnson's (1994) across-the-board (ATB) movement analysis of Gapping, Agbayani and Zoerner (2004) argue that Gapping involves the application of sideward movement of the main verb out of coordinate structures. In this paper, I show that the verb movement analyses of Gapping are problematic. Ultimately, I maintain that Gapping is a discourse-oriented variant of TP ellipsis. More precise...

Gapping Constructions in Universal Dependencies v2

In this paper, we provide a detailed account of sentences with gapping such as “John likes tea, and Mary coffee” within the Universal Dependencies (UD) framework. We explain how common gapping constructions as well as rare complex constructions can be analyzed on the basis of examples in Dutch, English, Farsi, German, Hindi, Japanese, and Turkish. We further argue why the adopted analysis of th...

On Syntax-Semantics of Gapping Constructions

Experimental Evidence for Constraint Competition in Gapping Constructions

This paper presents the results of two experiments investigating gradient acceptability in gapping constructions. Experiment 1 shows that adjuncts and complements are equally acceptable as remnants in gapping, a fact that has been surrounded by controversy in the literature. It also provides evidence against the claim that gapping must leave behind exactly two remnants, and shows that subject r...

Towards a QUD-Based Analysis of Gapping Constructions

In this paper I examine what have often been considered the syntactic properties of Gapping constructions (Ross, 1970) and show that they are in fact discourse-pragmatic in nature. I offer a novel analysis of Gapping constructions by extending recent Question Under Discussion (QUD)-based accounts in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (Ginzburg and Sag, 2000; Ginzburg, 2012).