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- Title
P-omission in ellipsis in Spanish: Evidence for syntactic identity.
- Authors
Stigliano, Laura
- Abstract
In this paper I discuss apparent violations to the P(reposition)-Stranding Generalization (Merchant 2001) in Spanish, a language that does not allow P-stranding in regular wh-questions. I will refer to these apparent violations to the P-stranding Generalization as cases of P(reposition)-omission, which I define as the omission of a preposition in an ellipsis fragment. In order to provide a unified analysis for all types of clausal ellipsis, I examine different constructions such as sluicing, fragment answers, contrast sluicing, stripping and pseudostripping, split questions, and sprouting. I claim that P-omission in clausal ellipsis in Spanish is only allowed when the following two conditions are met: (a) the remnant's correlate in the antecedent does not move, and (b) the remnant does not move. I account for the distribution of this phenomenon by arguing that ellipsis is licensed under strict syntactic identity, and that the remnant doesn't need to move to escape deletion. Additionally, I show that previous approaches that derive P-omission in Spanish from non-isomorphic, copular sources make incorrect predictions with regard to the patterns found in different types of clausal ellipsis in this language.
- Subjects
SPANISH language; GENERALIZATION; GERMINATION; PREPOSITIONS; MERCHANTS
- Publication
Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2022, Vol 40, Issue 4, p1353
- ISSN
0167-806X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11049-021-09535-w