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| Title: | Syntactic Identity and Locality Restrictions on Verbal Ellipsis |
| Authors: | Murguia, Elixabete |
| Advisors: | Juan, Uriagereka
Amy, Weinberg |
| Department/Program: | Linguistics |
| Type: | Dissertation |
| Keywords: | Language, Linguistics (0290)
Computer Science (0984)
syntactic identity, locality restrictions on verbal ellipsis, gapping, VPE, pseudogapping, minimalist parser |
| Issue Date: | 3-May-2004 |
| Abstract: | This dissertation investigates the topic of verbal ellipsis in English. Two main issues are addressed in this work: (i) the identity condition that restricts the application of ellipsis and (ii) the different locality restrictions that apply to elliptical constructions. The identity condition is examined from the point of view of competence, while the locality condition is given a natural answer from the processing domain. Furthermore, a parsing algorithm based on minimalist grammars is defined.
Chapter 1 introduces the topic. Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 deal with the syntactic identity condition. Chapter 2 reviews some proposals in the literature, namely, Lasnik (1995b), Kitagawa (1991) and Fiengo and May (1994). All these analyses examine controversial examples where, apparently, partial syntactic identity between antecedent and gap is found. Chapter 3 presents a new analysis which assumes late lexical insertion, in the spirit of derivational morphology (Marantz 1993), and offers a uni... |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/1439 |
| Appears in Collections: | Linguistics Theses and Dissertations
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