A reply to Kubota and Levine on gapping

In a series of papers Kubota and Levine give an account of gapping and determiner gapping in terms of hybrid type logical grammar, including anomalous scopal interactions with auxiliaries and negative quantifiers. We make three observations: (i) under the counterpart assumptions that Kubota and Levi...

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Published in:	Natural language and linguistic theory 2017-02, Vol.35 (1), p.257-270
Main Authors:	Morrill, Glyn, Valentín, Oriol
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	determiner gapping Determiners discontinuous gapping displacement type logical grammar Ellipsis El·lipsi gapping Grammar Grammar, Comparative and general Gramàtica comparada i general hybrid type Informàtica Intel·ligència artificial Language Linguistics Llenguatge natural logical grammar Natural Language Processing (NLP) Philosophy of Language Phonology Quantifiers Social Sciences Syntax Àrees temàtiques de la UPC
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Summary:	In a series of papers Kubota and Levine give an account of gapping and determiner gapping in terms of hybrid type logical grammar, including anomalous scopal interactions with auxiliaries and negative quantifiers. We make three observations: (i) under the counterpart assumptions that Kubota and Levine make, the existent displacement type logical grammar account of gapping already accounts for the scopal interactions, (ii) Kubota and Levine overgenerate determiner-verb order in-consistencies in determiner gapping conjuncts whereas the immediate adaptation of their proposal to displacement type logical grammar does not do so, and (iii) Kubota and Levine do not capture simplex gapping as a special case of complex gapping, but require distinct lexical entries for the two cases; we show how a generalisation of displacement type logical grammar allows both simplex and discontinuous gapping under a single type assignment.
ISSN:	0167-806X 1573-0859