Clausal ellipsis
Deletion or selective spell-out
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19436947 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hans Broekhuis (Meertens Institute), Josef Bayer (0000-0002-6445-5333, University of Konstanz) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Pages | 23-37 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Linguistics in the Netherlands (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0929-7332 • E-ISSN: 1569-9919 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/avt.00035.bro |
| OpenAlex | W3044904429 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 19 |
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
Linguistics · Natural language processing · Spell · Computer Science · Logic, programming, and type systems · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0.75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |