@article{jbp:/content/journals/10.1075/avt.00002.bro, author = "Broekhuis, Hans", title = "The syntax of Dutch gapping", journal= "Linguistics in the Netherlands", year = "2018", volume = "35", number = "1", pages = "19-33", doi = "https://doi.org/10.1075/avt.00002.bro", url = "https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/avt.00002.bro", publisher = "John Benjamins", issn = "0929-7332", type = "Journal Article", keywords = "negation", keywords = "particles", keywords = "gapping", keywords = "A′-movement", keywords = "ellipsis", abstract = "Abstract This article takes as its point of departure Neijt’s (1979) claim that gapping is a rule of syntax with properties also found in wh-movement constructions. I will refine this proposal by concluding that gapping remnants are A′-moved into the clause-initial position (SpecCP) and/or the specifiers of functional projections such as TopP, FocP and NegP found in the middle field of the clause. I will further show that this approach sheds new light on various problems (such as the distribution of modal and polarity particles) not satisfactorily solved in earlier analyses.", }