Agreement Switch in Verb-Echo Answers

Evidence for Distributed Ellipsis

Bibliographic Data

ID10261237
AuthorsGesoel Ernesto Ribeiro Mendes (0000-0003-1564-1970, Haverford College), Gesoel Mendes (Haverford College, 370 Lancaster Ave, Haverford, PA 19041, United States, [email protected]), Marta Ruda (0000-0001-6330-0666, Institute of English Studies, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Al. Adama Mickiewicza 9a, 31–120 Kraków, Poland, [email protected]), Jana Willer‐gold (0000-0001-7664-170X, University College London), Jana Willer-Gold (Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street, London, WC1N 1PF, United Kingdom, [email protected]), Bojana Ristić (0000-0002-4708-9976, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Aškerčeva 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, [email protected]), Boban Arsenijević (0000-0002-1124-6319, Department of Slavic Studies, University of Graz, Merangasse 70/I, 8010 Graz, Austria, [email protected]), Nermina Čordalija (0000-0001-9519-751X, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo, Franje Račkog 1, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, [email protected]), Nedzad Leko (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo, Franje Račkog 1, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, [email protected]), Frane Malenica (0000-0002-1926-1353, Department of English Studies, University of Zadar, Obala kralja Petra Krešimira IV. br. 2, 23000 Zadar, Croatia, [email protected]), Franc Lanko Marušič (Center for Cognitive Science of Language, University of Nova Gorica, Vipavska 13, 5000 Nova Gorica Slovenia, [email protected]), Franc Marušič (0000-0002-0667-3236, University of Nova Gorica), Irina Masnikosa (University of Zagreb), Tanja Milićev (0000-0002-5722-502X, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, Dr Zorana Đinđića 2, 21101 Novi Sad, Serbia, [email protected]), Nataša Milićević (0000-0003-1773-939X, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad, Dr Zorana Đinđića 2, 21101 Novi Sad, Serbia, [email protected]), Petra Mišmaš (0000-0001-8659-875X, Center for Cognitive Science of Language, University of Nova Gorica, Vipavska 13, 5000 Nova Gorica Slovenia, [email protected]), Ivana Mitić (0000-0002-2347-6795, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Niš, Ćirila i Metodija 2, 18101 Niš, Serbia, [email protected]), Anita Peti‐stantić (0000-0001-5650-5719, University of Zagreb), Anita Peti-Stantić (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Ivana Lučića 3, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia, [email protected]), Branimir Stanković (0000-0002-5542-544X, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Niš, Ćirila i Metodija 2, 18101 Niš, Serbia, [email protected]), Matea Tolić (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo, Franje Račkog 1, 71000 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, [email protected]), Jelena Tušek (0000-0001-6387-6243, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Ivana Lučića 3, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia, [email protected]), Andrew Nevins (0000-0001-5318-5596, Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street, London, WC1N 1PF, United Kingdom, [email protected])
Year2024
Pages1-74
Publication date2024-07-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLinguistic Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0024-3892 • E-ISSN: 1530-9150
PublisherThe MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1162/ling_a_00539
OpenAlexW4400640967
LanguageDE

In this article, we claim that syntactic objects undergoing ellipsis can be targeted by both narrow syntactic and PF operations. We base this conclusion on experimental evidence from the interaction between single conjunct agreement and verb-echo answers in South Slavic, which we show to be derived via verb-stranding VP ellipsis. Adopting the view that Vocabulary Insertion replaces Q-variables on lexical heads (Halle 1991) and ellipsis is a syntactic operation which deletes Q-variables (Saab 2022), we demonstrate that constituents properly included in the ellipsis site can undergo Internal Merge in the narrow syntax, and can participate in PF processes from the derived position. The interaction between ellipsis, Internal Merge and Agree-Copy that accounts for these patterns of data follows naturally within the Distributed Ellipsis approach

Ellipsis (linguistics · Linguistics · Merge (version control · Modal verb · Natural language processing · Syntax · Verb · Verb phrase ellipsis · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation