A Q-based approach to clausal ellipsis: Deriving the preposition stranding and island sensitivity generalisations without movement
This paper argues that the meaning of a clausal ellipsis site can only be recovered from a 'syntactically derived question', regardless of whether this question is explicitly uttered or is merely pragmatically inferred. This entails that the meaning of a clausal ellipsis site cannot be rec...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2019-01-01
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| Series: | Glossa |
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| Online Access: | https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/653 |