Constraining Head-Stranding Ellipsis

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4318445
AutoresIdan Landau (0000-0002-5583-1798, Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics, Ben Gurion University, P.O. Box 653, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel,, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen51
Número2
Páginas281-318
Fecha de publicación2020-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLinguistic Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0024-3892 • E-ISSN: 1530-9150
EditorialThe MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1162/ling_a_00347
OpenAlexW3008789184
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas15
Referencias citadas79

Ellipsis of a constituent whose head has moved out of it ("headless ellipsis") is possible in some cases but not in others. Headless ellipsis is licensed only if the stranded head has not crossed a Spell-Out domain. The reason is that the silencing instruction responsible for ellipsis must be PF-visible on the head of the elided constituent, and PF-visibility is cut off at Spell-Out domain boundaries. A parallel effect is observed with remnants of head movement that are frozen for movement ("headless movement"). The two effects can possibly be united if ellipsis and copy deletion recruit the same silencing instruction at PF, hosted on the head of the deleted constituent. A third, mirror-image effect is observed with reprise fragments, which must be visibly headed. This time head movement removes the PF instruction that spares these fragments from ellipsis. Overall, these phenomena establish the significance of headedness for the syntax-PF interface

Complementizer · Domain (mathematical analysis) · Ellipsis (linguistics) · Head (geology) · Linguistics · Movement (music) · Spell · Syntax · Computer Science · DNA and Biological Computing · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · semigroups and automata theory