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A constraint on copy deletion
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Tue Trinh
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October 4, 2009
Abstract
One version of the copy theory of movement holds that syntactic traces are full-fledged constituents which undergo a PF-deletion rule. In this paper, I propose a constraint on this rule. The constraint says that the lower copy of a chain can be phonologically deleted only if it ends an XP. I show that this constraint, conjoined with proposals that have been made concerning phrase structure (Chomsky, Bare phrase structure, 1994) and the semantics of NP in classifier languages (Chierchia, Natural Language Semantics 6: 339–405, 1998), explains a variety of facts in Dutch, German, Hebrew, Norwegian, Swedish and Vietnamese.
Published Online: 2009-10-04
Published in Print: 2009-10-01
© 2009 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, D-10785 Berlin
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