Studies in Generative Grammar -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Incomplete parenthesis: An overview -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Empirical and theoretical issues -- 2.1 Parenthesis -- 2.2 Ellipsis -- 2.3 Parenthesis and ellipsis -- 3 Outlook -- References -- Parenthesis and comparative operator deletion -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Operators in comparative subclauses -- 3 Comparative subclauses in Hungarian -- 4 Parenthetical clauses and operators -- 5 Null operators in parenthetical clauses -- 6 Multiple operators -- 7 Multiple complementisers -- 8 German comparatives -- 9 German parentheticals -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Sluicing and the inquisitive potential of appositives -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Sluicing and issues -- 2.1 Deletion and symmetric entailment -- 2.2 The Inquisitive account -- 3 Appositive content -- 4 Experimental evidence -- 4.1 Experiment 1 -- 4.1.1 Materials and method -- 4.1.2 Participants -- 4.1.3 Distribution of responses -- 4.1.4 Informativity effects on appositive antecedents for sluices -- 4.2 Experiment 2 -- 4.2.1 Materials and method -- 4.2.2 Participants -- 4.2.3 Analysis of results -- 4.3 Discussion -- 5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix -- References -- Tracy Conner - Heads must be heard: Overtness and ellipsis licensing -- Introduction -- 1 Previous Accounts of Ellipsis Licensing -- 1.1 The Role of Overtness in Licensing of Verb Phrase Ellipsis -- 2 Optionality and Ellipsis in African American English -- 2.1 Background and Optionality in African American English -- 2.1.1 Auxiliary and Copula in AAE -- 2.1.2 Optionality in Possessive Marking in AAE -- 2.2 Optionality and Predictions for Ellipsis -- 3 Experiment 1: Testing The OCE and Verb Phrase Ellipsis -- Procedures -- The Task -- Participants -- Materials and Design -- Procedure & Apparatus -- Scoring -- Results.

Discussion -- 4 Experiment 2: Possessive Marking and The OCE -- 4.1 Methods -- 5 Overtness: A challenge for the current theory of ellipsis licensing -- 5.1 Feature-based accounts of ellipsis licensing -- 5.2 Ellipsis and possessive pronouns -- 6 A possible account of licensing for Clausal Ellipsis -- 6.1 A Movement-based Account -- 7 Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- Appendix 1 -- References -- Parentheticals are - presumably - CPs -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Evidence for hidden structure -- 2.1 Sentence adverbs and particles -- 2.2 Mood -- 2.3 Summary -- 3 Analysis -- 3.1 Mechanism -- 3.2 Multiple specifiers -- 3.3 Can C survive? -- 3.4 Further evidence -- 3.4.1 TP parentheticals -- 3.4.2 Reflexivization -- 3.5 Summary -- 4 Extensions -- 4.1 One argument appositions -- 4.1.1 Appositions in non-nominative, verb governed case -- 4.1.2 Appositions in nominative case -- 4.1.3 Appositions with an anchor P[NP] -- 4.2 Multiple-argument appositions -- 4.2.1 A clause-mate condition -- 4.2.2 Word order preservation -- 4.2.3 Possessors -- 4.3 Summary -- 5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Syntactic hypotheses about so-called 'que-deletion' in French -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Que-deletion and parenthetical verbs in French -- 2.1 Parenthetical verbs in French -- 2.2 Que-deletion and that-deletion -- 2.3 A controversy about the existence of que-deletion -- 2.4 Authentic examples of que-deletion -- 3 The syntax of parenthetical verbs -- 3.1 Concatenation argument -- 3.2 NEG-raising argument -- 3.3 Conclusion about the syntax of parenthetical verbs -- 4 The syntax of so-called que-deletion -- 4.1 Paraît-il que -- 4.2 Verbal and adverbial initial position without que -- 4.3 Syntax of que- and that-deletion -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- Ki issues in Turkish -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background -- 3 PK-clauses and PK-XPs.

3.1 PK-clauses: the traditional analysis -- 3.2 PK-clauses are not canonical clausal adjuncts -- 3.3 Proclitic-ki is not a relative pronoun -- 3.4 Proclitic-ki as a coordinator -- 3.5 Proclitic-ki coordinates root clauses: a comparison of PK-XPs and yani-XPs -- 3.6 PK-XPs as reduced PK-clauses -- 3.7 Par-Merge -- 3.8 Germanic appositions -- 3.9 Summary of 3 -- 4 EK-clauses -- 4.1 Enclitic-ki is not a subordinator: against the traditional analysis -- 4.2 Enclitic-ki is not a (parenthetical) coordinator -- 4.3 Enclitic-ki as monovalent Par -- 4.4 Additional properties of EK-clauses: assertions vs. demonstrations -- 4.5 EK-clauses and Germanic comment clauses -- 5 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Discourse inversion and deletion inas-parentheticals -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Overview of the analysis -- 2 The syntax of as-parentheticals -- 2.1 Kinds of as-parentheticals -- 2.2 Movement -- 2.3 Deletion -- 3 Properties of inverting as-parentheticals -- 3.1 Subject postposing -- 3.2 Multiple auxiliary stranding and SAI -- 3.3 Expletives and the position of the subject -- 4 Argument structure mismatch and the position of subjects -- 4.1 Voice and ellipsis -- 4.2 Mismatches in as-parentheticals -- 4.3 The subject escapes VoiceP -- 5 Discourse inversion -- 5.1 Similarities between participle preposing and invertingas-parentheticals -- 5.2 The syntax of participle preposing -- 6 Inversion in as-parentheticals -- 7 Conclusion and prospects -- Acknowledgements -- References -- The inherent syntactic incompleteness of right node raising -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Background -- 1.1.1 Categorial promiscuity -- 1.1.2 Typological pervasiveness -- 1.1.3 Types of relation -- 2 Previous analyses -- 2.1 Movement dependencies -- 2.2 Non-movement dependencies -- 3 Contingency plans -- 3.1 A semantic dependency -- 3.2 A new syntactic dependency.

3.3 Another new syntactic dependency -- 3.4 Interim conclusion -- 4 An extra-syntactic dependency -- 4.1 Deriving the interpretation -- 4.2 Missing arguments in Edo -- 4.3 RNR logical forms -- 4.4 RNR presupposition -- 4.5 Interim conclusion -- 5 Constraining the dependency -- 5.1 C-command -- 5.2 Deletion -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Parenthesis: Fundamental features, meanings, discourse functions and ellipsis -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Fundamental features of parenthesis -- 3 Delimitation from related phenomena -- 4 Meanings and discourse functions -- 5 Ellipsis -- 6 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Intonation phrases and speech acts -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background -- 2.1 Background on intonation phrases in German sentence prosody and intonation -- 2.2 Background on focus and sentence stress -- 2.3 Background on modal particles -- 2.4 Background on sentence adverbials -- 3 Coordination -- 3.1 Coordinated DPs -- 3.2 Coordinated sentences -- 3.3 Further remarks: Information structure and the integrated stress-pattern -- 3.4 Further remarks: Another constraint on the prosody of coordinated sentences -- 3.5 Summary of constraints and ranking -- 4 Appositive relatives and appositions -- 4.1 Appositive relatives -- 4.2 Appositions that are intonation phrases -- 4.3 Accented appositions -- 4.4 Unaccented appositions -- 5 The distinction between right dislocation and afterthought -- 5.1 Some properties of RD and AT -- 5.2 Speech acts and RD/AT -- 6 Multiple focus -- 7 Peripheral adverbial clauses -- 8 Parentheticals -- 9 Remarks on the syntax of intonation-phrase triggering -- 10 Conclusion -- References -- Index.