The syntax of Dutch gapping

TY - JOUR

T1 - The syntax of Dutch gapping

AU - Broekhuis, Hans

PY - 2018/12

Y1 - 2018/12

N2 - This article takes as its point of departure Neijt’s (1979) claim that gapping is a rule of syntax with properties also found in wh-movement constructions. I will refine this proposal by concluding that gapping remnants are A'-moved into the clause-initial position (SpecCP) and/or the specifiers of functional projections such as TopP, FocP and NegP found in the middle field of the clause. I will further show that this approach sheds new light on various problems (such as the distribution of modal and polarity particles) not satisfactorily solved in earlier analyses

AB - This article takes as its point of departure Neijt’s (1979) claim that gapping is a rule of syntax with properties also found in wh-movement constructions. I will refine this proposal by concluding that gapping remnants are A'-moved into the clause-initial position (SpecCP) and/or the specifiers of functional projections such as TopP, FocP and NegP found in the middle field of the clause. I will further show that this approach sheds new light on various problems (such as the distribution of modal and polarity particles) not satisfactorily solved in earlier analyses

KW - ellipsis

KW - gapping

KW - particles

KW - negation

KW - spell-out

U2 - 10.1075/avt.00002.bro

DO - 10.1075/avt.00002.bro

M3 - Article

SN - 0929-7332

VL - 35

SP - 19

EP - 33

JO - Linguistics in the Netherlands

JF - Linguistics in the Netherlands

IS - 1

ER -