Completability vs (in)completeness

• Gregoromichelaki, Eleni
• Mills, Greg
• Howes, Christine
• Eshghi, Arash
• Chatzikyriakidis, Stergios
• Purver, Matthew
• Kempson, Ruth
• Cann, Ronnie
• Healey, Patrick G. T.

In natural conversation, no notion of "complete sentence" is required for syntactic licensing. We provide a sketch of a Dynamic Syntax architecture combined with incrementally-induced conceptual representations within which underspecification and time-relative update of meanings and utterances constitute the sole concept of “syntax”.

Research areas:

• Pragmatics

Year:

2017

Type of Publication:

In Proceedings

Book title:

{BICLCE} 2017 workshop Approaches to Fragments and Ellipsis in Spoken and Written English