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The subject-matter of this Dissertation outlines a new methodology in approaching literature written in French in North Africa. It purports to do away with reductionism. In the Introduction we state the main characteristic of this literature, its un-belonging to one tradition as…

This dissertation investigates two elliptical phenomena, sluicing and verb phrase ellipsis (VPE), in Indonesian. This dissertation is equally concerned with description and formal analysis, and provides the first in-depth description and generative analysis of both Indonesian sl…

This dissertation examines the elliptical structures of (a) sluicing (John called someone, but I don't know who!), (b) fragment answers (A: Who did John call?, B: Mary!), (c) gapping (John is eating ice-cream, and Mary apple pie!), and (d) Right Node Raising (John cooked and Mar…

This thesis attempts to assimilate head movement as far as possible to phrasal movement. In particular, I argue that if we assume that the computational system of natural languages does not discriminate head movement from phrasal movement in terms of locality and the possible mo…