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Movement and deletion after syntax: Licensing by inflection reconsidered

Year: 2015

Type: article

Abstract: In this paper we study the interaction between ellipsis and inflectional morphology and put forward a generalization about ellipsis blocking the application of some morphological operations. Working in the Distributed Morphology framework, we will demonstrate this generalization in the realm ofNPellipsis. We will show thatNPellipsis can lead to stranded affix filter violations, and that there are various strategies languages can resort to in order to resolve problems of convergence that stranded affixes cause at thePFinterface. The resolution of the stranded affix filter configuration is responsible for the well‐known observation that heads precedingNPellipsis sites need to show overt inflection in languages that inflect these heads (Lobeck 1995).

Source: Studia Linguistica

DOI: 10.1111/stul.12039

Authors: Andrés Saab, Anikó Lipták

Institutions: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Instituto de Filología y Literaturas Hispánicas "Dr. Amado Alonso", Leiden University

Language: English

Topic: Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Subfield: Language and Linguistics

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

OpenAlex ID: W1594675130

FWCI: 44.69

Cites: 68

Cited by: 71

Related to: 10