Parasitic Gaps

This book offers a comprehensive survey of research on parasitic gaps, an intriguing syntactic phenomenon.

This book offers a comprehensive survey of research on parasitic gaps, an intriguing syntactic phenomenon. The first section of the book contains a history of work on the topic and three fundamental previously published papers. The remaining three sections present new perspectives on the theory of parasitic gaps based on data taken from diverse languages.

Contributors
Michael Calcagno, Peter W. Culicover, Elisabet Engdahl, Robert Hukari, Andreas Kathol, Christopher Kennedy, Katalin É. Kiss, Robert Levine, Alan Munn, Jamal Ouhalla, Paul M. Postal, Christine Tellier

Peter W. Culicover is Professor and Chair of Linguistics and Director of the Center for Cognitive Science at The Ohio State University. He is the author of Principles and Parameters: An Introduction to the Theory of Government and Binding and Its Extensions and Syntactic Nuts. Paul M. Postal is Research Professor at New York University. He is the author of Three Investigations of Extraction (MIT Press, 1998).