Spanish modal ellipsis is not null complement anaphora
Modal verbs are well-known to license ellipsis of their complements under certain conditions. In the literature on Spanish, such sequences, which I refer to as Modal Ellipsis (ME), have been traditionally argued to involve a null pronoun. These analyses therefore treat ME simply as an instance of Nu...
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De Gruyter
2023-07-01
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| Series: | Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2021-0077 |