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Article published In: Linguistics in the Netherlands 2018
Edited by Bert Le Bruyn and Janine Berns
[Linguistics in the Netherlands 35] 2018
► pp. 19–33

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The syntax of Dutch gapping

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Published online: 3 December 2018
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Abstract
This article takes as its point of departure Neijt, Anneke. 1979. “Gapping. A contribution to sentence grammar.” PhD diss., University of Utrecht. Google Scholar logo with link to Google Scholar 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.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Gapping and wh-movement
  • 3.Gapping and A′-movement
  • 4.Verbal-head restriction on gapping
  • 5.Interrogative, topicalized and negative phrases
  • 6.Focus particles
  • 7.Elision of the negative marker niet ‘not’ is impossible
  • 8.Concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
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