Repair or accommodation? Split antecedent ellipsis and the limits of repair

We begin from the assumption that the grammar requires syntactic matching between an elided verb phrase (VP) and its antecedent. When a fully matching antecedent cannot be found, the antecedent will be repaired if there is evidence for the repair, only a few operations are needed, and the repair rev...

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Main Authors: John Duff, Lyn Frazier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2019-07-01
Series:Glossa
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Online Access:https://www.glossa-journal.org/article/id/5185/