A Q-based approach to clausal ellipsis : Deriving the preposition stranding and island sensitivity generalisations without movement

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Glossa : a journal of general linguistics. Open Library of the Humanities. 2019, 4(1), 12. eISSN 2397-1835. Verfügbar unter: doi: 10.5334/gjgl.653
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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 recovered from an inferred question q in a language L if q is syntactically ill-formed in L. I demonstrate that this restriction on recoverability can account for Merchant’s (2001; 2004) Preposition-Stranding Generalisation and for the observation that fragments appear to be sensitive to syntactic islands (Merchant 2004; Abels 2011; Barros et al. 2014; 2015) without any mention of whether remnants of clausal ellipsis themselves undergo movement. Because there is no need to stipulate that remnants themselves undergo (often exceptional) movement under this approach, a theory of clausal ellipsis modelled on Cable’s (2010) Q-based analysis of wh-questions is developed that permits non-pronunciation “around” designated phrases. This approach is shown to be preferred on many occasions to the predominant movement-based analysis (Merchant 2004), which is too restrictive and must frequently resort to the notion of ellipsis repair.

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clausal ellipsis, ellipsis repair, island evasion, preposition stranding generalization, questions under discussion, recoverability, structured meanings
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ISO 690GRIFFITHS, James, 2019. A Q-based approach to clausal ellipsis : Deriving the preposition stranding and island sensitivity generalisations without movement. In: Glossa : a journal of general linguistics. Open Library of the Humanities. 2019, 4(1), 12. eISSN 2397-1835. Verfügbar unter: doi: 10.5334/gjgl.653
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  journal={Glossa : a journal of general linguistics},
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