Gapping and Frame Semantics: A fresh look from a cognitive perspective
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چکیده
The topic of this paper is one of the pet subjects of trar~gformational s yn tax -gapp ing . Seve rn 'exa~ffple's belOw will show that gapping is actually affected 'by' a, combination of syntactic, semantic and pragmatic factors, thus being far from a purely syntactic phenomenon. By looking at some basic properties of gapping from the point of view of interpretation and cognitive pro,cessing, it is possible to arrive at a global principle tha t can provide an integrated approach for these Various intluences on. gapping. The principle proposed has the added advantage of being ndt just ian arbitrary formal rule but being motivated by eogni{ivh cOnsidei'ations. Thus, tile view taken he re is compat!ble with tire basic tenets o[ Cognitive' !,inguist,ics. '
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