English if (not)-stripping Constructions: A Direct Interpretation Approach

English if-stripping has at least two subtypes: if-stripping and negative if-stripping. As in the typical stripping, its remnant can be either a lexical or phrasal remnant, and it receives a sentential interpretation. The paper reviews sentential analyses that capture the propositional meaning of th...

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Published in영어학 Vol. 22; pp. 821 - 845
Main Authors Seulkee Park, Jong-Bok Kim
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 한국영어학회 2022
Subjects
영어와문학
Bare Argument Ellipsis
subordinate clauses
direct interpretation
if-stripping
discourse
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ISSN1598-1398
2586-7474
DOI10.15738/kjell.22..202208.821

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Summary:English if-stripping has at least two subtypes: if-stripping and negative if-stripping. As in the typical stripping, its remnant can be either a lexical or phrasal remnant, and it receives a sentential interpretation. The paper reviews sentential analyses that capture the propositional meaning of the stripped clause through movement-cum-deletion operations. The paper discusses attested corpus data that challenge the postulation of sentential sources and argues for a direct interpretation approach that directly generates if (not)-stripping and assigns the propositional meaning through discourse-based proper resolution processes. KCI Citation Count: 0
ISSN:1598-1398
2586-7474
DOI:10.15738/kjell.22..202208.821