Clarification requests (echo questions)
As part of a collaborative enterprise between James Griffiths' project Fragments of discourse and my postdoctoral project Ellipsis licensing beyond syntax (hosted at U Leiden), James Griffiths, Anikó Lipták, and I have conducted the first cross-linguistic Minimalist investigation of reprise fragments (echo questions as fragmentary responses). We show that the properties exhibited by reprise fragments can only be modelled under an 'in-situ' approach to clausal ellipsis. To account for the differing locality constraints on reprise fragments observed across languages, we offer and then defend a theory in which ellipsis is licensed by a syntactically derived question under discussion (QUD) in the sense of Griffiths (2019).
Griffiths, J, G. Güneş & A. Lipták. 2022. Phonetic properties of the prosody of echo questions in English and Hungarian. Ms., Leiden University.
Griffiths, J, G. Güneş & A. Lipták. 2022/accepted. Reprise fragments in English and Hungarian: Further support for an in-situ Q-equivalence approach to clausal ellipsis. Language.
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Griffiths, J, G. Güneş & A. Lipták. 2020. Focus and quotation in English echo questions. DGFS 2020 – WS 12: Expressing the use-mention-distinction: An empirical perspective. Hamburg University – Germany, March.
Griffiths, J, Güneş, G. & A. Lipták. 2020. The unbearable lightness of WHAT? A clausal ellipsis analysis of English reprise fragments. With James Griffiths and Anikó Lipták. Workshop in honor of the defense of Anastasiia Ionova. Leiden University – The Netherlands, January.
Griffiths, J, Güneş, G. & A. Lipták. 2018. A Minimalist approach to Reprise Fragments. The annual meeting of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft. Stuttgart, 03/18.
Griffiths, J, Güneş, G. & A. Lipták. 2018. English reprise Fragments in Minimalism: an in-situ analysis” Generative Linguistics in the Old World, GLOW41. Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences – Hungary, April. [poster]
Griffiths, J, Güneş, G. & A. Lipták. 2017. Echo fragments. Workshop 6 (Approaches to Fragments and ellipsis in spoken and written English) of the 7th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English . Vigo, 09/17.
Griffiths, J, Güneş, G. & A. Lipták. 2017. Echo fragments in English: preliminary remarks. With James Griffiths and Anikó Lipták. Com(parative) Syn(tax) Meetings. Leiden University – The Netherlands, April.
Griffiths, J, G. Güneş & A. Lipták. 2022. Phonetic properties of the prosody of echo questions in English and Hungarian. Ms., Leiden University.
Griffiths, J, G. Güneş & A. Lipták. 2022/accepted. Reprise fragments in English and Hungarian: Further support for an in-situ Q-equivalence approach to clausal ellipsis. Language.
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Griffiths, J, G. Güneş & A. Lipták. 2020. Focus and quotation in English echo questions. DGFS 2020 – WS 12: Expressing the use-mention-distinction: An empirical perspective. Hamburg University – Germany, March.
Griffiths, J, Güneş, G. & A. Lipták. 2020. The unbearable lightness of WHAT? A clausal ellipsis analysis of English reprise fragments. With James Griffiths and Anikó Lipták. Workshop in honor of the defense of Anastasiia Ionova. Leiden University – The Netherlands, January.
Griffiths, J, Güneş, G. & A. Lipták. 2018. A Minimalist approach to Reprise Fragments. The annual meeting of the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft. Stuttgart, 03/18.
Griffiths, J, Güneş, G. & A. Lipták. 2018. English reprise Fragments in Minimalism: an in-situ analysis” Generative Linguistics in the Old World, GLOW41. Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences – Hungary, April. [poster]
Griffiths, J, Güneş, G. & A. Lipták. 2017. Echo fragments. Workshop 6 (Approaches to Fragments and ellipsis in spoken and written English) of the 7th Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English . Vigo, 09/17.
Griffiths, J, Güneş, G. & A. Lipták. 2017. Echo fragments in English: preliminary remarks. With James Griffiths and Anikó Lipták. Com(parative) Syn(tax) Meetings. Leiden University – The Netherlands, April.