ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the main properties of gapping in English. It presents two left-peripheral analyses, one deployed in full cartographic terms and another that simply aligns the left-peripheral movement of gapping with fronting for contrastive effects. The chapter lists out list the problems for these analyses, focusing in particular on the fact that the left-peripheral movements postulated for gapping diverge quite strongly from other well-established information structure–driven movements to the left periphery. It discusses some alternative analyses that avoid some of the problems raised for the left-peripheral analysis. The chapter considers cartographic variants of Johnson's analysis in which the gapping remnants are not vP adjoined but are moved to designated positions in a low left periphery. It suggests that deploying the low periphery as developed in crucial work by Adriana Belletti might allow for a way to overcome these problems.
