Short answers in Scottish Gaelic and their theoretical implications

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• 作者：Gary Thoms
• 关键词：Ellipsis ; Fragment answers ; Scottish Gaelic ; Silent structure
• 刊名：Natural Language & Linguistic Theory
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：February 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：34
• 期：1
• 页码：351-391
• 全文大小：1,478 KB
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• 作者单位：Gary Thoms (1)
  
  1. School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow, 12 University Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8QH, UK
  
• 刊物类别：Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
• 刊物主题：Linguistics
  Linguistics
  Philosophy of Language
  Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-0859

文摘

This article presents an analysis of a novel short answer strategy in Scottish Gaelic, called the Verb-Answer, which differs from standard fragment answers in allowing us to directly observe some of the clausal structure in which it is embedded. It is shown that the Verb-Answer is identical to the fragment answer in virtually all other respects, demanding a unified analysis, and it is demonstrated that pursuing a unified analysis is problematic for Direct Interpretation approaches to short answers, but straightforward for the Silent Structure approach of Morgan (1973) and Merchant (2004). The extended typology of short answer strategies therefore provides an argument in favour of the latter approach to elliptical phenomena. Keywords Ellipsis Fragment answers Scottish Gaelic Silent structure