Subset relations in ellipsis licensing

This paper aims to provide arguments for the claim that ellipsis licensing requires elided material to constitute a subset of its antecedent. On the empirical side, I focus on deriving Ross’ (1970) generalization that backward gapping is restricted to OV contexts. A new operation Total Impoverishmen...

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Published in:	Glossa
Main Author:	Andrew Murphy
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Open Library of Humanities 2016-10-01
Subjects:	ellipsis licensing gapping Distributed Morphology
Online Access:	https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/4855/

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