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On the why of NP-Deletion

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Abstract

NP-deletion is an instance of movement involving a silent or pronounced resumptive pronoun.


Corresponding author: Richard S. Kayne, New York University, New York, USA, E-mail:
This paper corresponds very closely to a talk given on Nov. 6, 2021 at the 9th International Conference on Formal Linguistics, ICFL-9, Shanghai. It constitutes an expansion of part of Kayne (2017b). I am grateful to Jeroen van Craenenbroeck for helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper.

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