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

The syntax of Dutch gapping

| Meertens Institute

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.

Keywords: A′-movement, gapping, ellipsis, particles, negation
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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Published online: 3 December 2018
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