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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Broekhuis, Hans

Titel

The syntax of Dutch gapping

Ist Teil von

• Linguistics in the Netherlands, 2018-12, Vol.35 (1), p.19-33

Ort / Verlag

Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Abstract 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.