Contraction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23635549 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Grant Goodall (0000-0003-4652-9009, University of California San Diego, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 1-20 |
| Publication date | 2017-11-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, Second Edition (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118358733.wbsyncom004 |
| OpenAlex | W4240272681 |
| ISBN | 9781118358733 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
Contraction is a descriptive term for phenomena in which one word is reduced and apparently affixed to another. Two types of contraction have been particularly prominent in the syntax literature. The first, wanna ‐contraction, refers to the use of wanna in place of want to . There are a number of interesting ways in which wanna ‐contraction appears to rely on aspects of the syntactic structure. The most celebrated of these is that contraction is not possible across a trace of A′‐movement, but at a more general level, at least descriptively, the contracted form is allowed only in subject control environments (i.e. when want subcategorizes for a controlled clause of which to is the head). The second major type of contraction that has played a role in the syntax literature is finite auxiliary contraction, which refers to forms like we have becoming we've . Unlike wanna ‐contraction, finite auxiliary contraction does not seem to be sensitive to the presence of intervening traces and is not associated with subject control environments. Nonetheless, it is subject to restrictions that give the appearance of being syntactic. A well‐known example of this is that contraction is not possible when the auxiliary has a trace or a deletion site to its right. In both of these types of contraction, some analyses have attempted to account for the restrictions directly within the syntax, while others have made use of the way that syntactic structure interfaces with phonological phrasing.
Contraction (grammar) · Linguistics · Syntax · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Syntactic Theory and the Structure of English
Rules and representations
A New View of to -Contraction
Acquisition of the constraints on wanna contraction by advanced second language learners
Context-Sensitive Spell-Out
Syntax
A Note on Contraction
Phase theory and prosodic spellout
Movement and Control
Multiple Spell-Out and Contraction at the Syntax-Phonology Interface
The Morpholexical Nature of English to-Contraction
Global Rules
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |