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Elliptical Constructions, Multiple Frontings, and Surface-Based Syntax

Subject Areas: Topological Field, Sentence Type, Empty Element, German Syntax, HPSG

This paper appeared 2014 in Paola Monachesi, Gerhard Jäger, Gerald Penn und Shuly Winter (Eds.): Proceedings of Formal Grammar 2004, Stanford: CSLI Publications, pages 91–109.

This paper shows that there exist various constructions that allow topological fields to be empty without having any effect on the sentence type. Therefore a purely surface-based view of syntax seems to be not sufficient.

In a second part of the paper I argue for the use of (language internally motivated) empty elements since they allow for a better representation of the observable facts. Draft of February 03, 2014:

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