VP and TP Ellipsis: sentential polarity and information structure

This paper focuses on two types of predicate ellipsis, namely Verbal Phrase Ellipsis (VPE), also known in the literature as Verb-stranding ellipsis, and Tense Phrase Ellipsis (TPE), also called Stripping or Polarity Ellipsis. It suggests that the polarity-encoding functional category ΣP is involved...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Martins, Ana Maria (author)
Format: bookPart
Language:eng
Published: 2018
Subjects:
VP ellipsis
TP ellipsis
Polarity
Answering system
Information structure
Topic
Focus
Portuguese
Spanish
Catalan
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10451/31199
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/31199

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http://hdl.handle.net/10451/31199

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