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Antecedent Contained Deletion as VP sharing| old_uid | 2515 |
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| title | Antecedent Contained Deletion as VP sharing |
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| start_date | 2007/03/23 |
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| schedule | 15h-17h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | rdc, salle de séminaire du DEC |
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| details | Joint Work with Roni Katzir, MIT |
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| summary | Antecedent Contained Deletion (ACD) is generally assumed to involve VP ellipsis (VPE). Under this view, either QR or extraposition of the relative clause applies in the matrix VP to produce an appropriate antecedent VP.
i) John read every book Mary did
ii) John [read x] [every book Mary did [read x]]
In this talk we discuss a number of puzzles for the VPE account. We show that under this account ACD requires DP movement which violates known locality conditions on both QR and extraposition. We will present a new account of ACD, where VPE is replaced with VP sharing. The VP moves out of the relative clause and re-merges as the matrix VP. This account captures the correct locality conditions on ACD as well as a number of other features of this construction. |
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| responsibles | <not specified> |
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