Negation in Gapping

The first in-depth investigation of gapping and negation shows accepted accounts do not explain differences across languages, and available readings of the negation. The author questions basic assumptions in the analysis of gapping and presents a new syntactic analysis with implications for the interpretation of scope, and the theory of ellipsis.

1. Introduction ; 2. The Syntax of Clausal Negation: The Distributed Readings in Main Verb Gapping ; 3. The RIght Kind of Contrast: Narrow Scope Readings ; 4. Negation and the Speech Act ; 5. Finiteness in Gapping ; 6. Summary