Clausal ellipsis: Deletion of selective spell-out?

Hans Broekhuis; Josef Bayer

doi:10.1075/avt.00035.bro

Clausal ellipsis: Deletion of selective spell-out?

Meertens Instituut - Variatielinguïstiek

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This article compares two alternatives to the standard movement-and-deletion approach to clausal ellipsis, which postulates deletion of TP after the remnants of ellipsis are (sometimes exceptionally) A'-moved into the left periphery of the clause. One alternative is the in-situ approach, which denies the involvement of movement in the derivation of clausal ellipsis; it claims that clausal ellipsis can apply to any run-of-the-mill syntactic structure and simply deletes the familiar/given information from the propositional domain of the clause. Another alternative is the selective spell-out approach; it denies the involvement of deletion and states that the remnants undergo regular A'-movement into the specifiers of specific semantically relevant functional projections (CP, FocusP, NegP, etc.), which are subsequently selected for spell-out. This article argues that the selective spell-out approach is superior to the two deletion approaches.

Originele taal-2	Engels
Tijdschrift	Linguistics in the Netherlands
DOI's	https://doi.org/10.1075/avt.00035.bro
Status	Gepubliceerd - okt. 2020

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