A Parallel Movement Solution to Puzzles of Discontinuous Ellipses
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Brian Agbayani
Abstract
1. Introduction
This paper argues that a sideward/parallel movement analysis of so-called “Left- Peripheral Ellipsis” (LPE; Sag 1976) and Gapping constructions improves on the traditional deletion analysis in at least two important ways. First, it avoids the need to appeal to the notion of non-constituent deletion. Second, we attempt to show that directionality effects (Ross 1970 and others) can be derived without recourse to the head parameter or directionality stipulated in the application of transformational rules (which would require linear order in the narrow syntax and, further, would need to be parametrized); rather, we show that apparent directionality in LPE and Gapping constructions is a natural consequence of the interaction of Copy, Merge, PF-deletion of copies, and Cyclic Spell-Out— an effect that is derived only under a movement-based approach.
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- The Non-autonomy of Syntax
- Beyond the Constituent - A Dependency Grammar Analysis of Chains
- A Parallel Movement Solution to Puzzles of Discontinuous Ellipses
- Präpositionen und Komplementierer in Chemini Berber (Taqbaylit)
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