Wholesale Late Merger: Beyond the A/A[over-bar] Distinction
In this article, we develop a substantially expanded theory of late merger. Adopting related insights by Fox (2002), we argue that late merger is permitted whenever an output representation can be interpreted in the semantic component. A consequence of our approach is that late merger is available n...
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| author | Takahashi, Shoichi Hulsey, Sarah |
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| description | In this article, we develop a substantially expanded theory of late merger. Adopting related insights by Fox (2002), we argue that late merger is permitted whenever an output representation can be interpreted in the semantic component. A consequence of our approach is that late merger is available not only for the well-known case of adjuncts, but also for restrictors of determiners (wholesale late merger). We demonstrate that this theory can explain the different reconstruction possibilities of A-movement and A-movement, as well as various otherwise puzzling facts about movement and ellipsis, while still maintaining the copy theory of movement. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/659472022-10-01T13:14:56Z Wholesale Late Merger: Beyond the A/A[over-bar] Distinction Wholesale Late Merger: Beyond the A/Ā Distinction Takahashi, Shoichi Hulsey, Sarah Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Takahashi, Shoichi Takahashi, Shoichi In this article, we develop a substantially expanded theory of late merger. Adopting related insights by Fox (2002), we argue that late merger is permitted whenever an output representation can be interpreted in the semantic component. A consequence of our approach is that late merger is available not only for the well-known case of adjuncts, but also for restrictors of determiners (wholesale late merger). We demonstrate that this theory can explain the different reconstruction possibilities of A-movement and A-movement, as well as various otherwise puzzling facts about movement and ellipsis, while still maintaining the copy theory of movement. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Research Fellowship grant 9919) 2011-09-23T17:37:07Z 2011-09-23T17:37:07Z 2009-07 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0024-3892 1530-9150 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65947 Takahashi, Shoichi and Sarah Hulsey. "Wholesale Late Merger: Beyond the A/Ā Distinction." Linguistic Inquiry, 40.3, Summer 2009. © 2009 The MIT Press. en_US http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/linguistic_inquiry/v040/40.3.takahashi.html Linguistic Inquiry Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf MIT Press MIT Press |
| spellingShingle | Takahashi, Shoichi Hulsey, Sarah Wholesale Late Merger: Beyond the A/A[over-bar] Distinction |
| title | Wholesale Late Merger: Beyond the A/A[over-bar] Distinction |
| title_full | Wholesale Late Merger: Beyond the A/A[over-bar] Distinction |
| title_fullStr | Wholesale Late Merger: Beyond the A/A[over-bar] Distinction |
| title_full_unstemmed | Wholesale Late Merger: Beyond the A/A[over-bar] Distinction |
| title_short | Wholesale Late Merger: Beyond the A/A[over-bar] Distinction |
| title_sort | wholesale late merger beyond the a a over bar distinction |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/65947 |
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