The Semantic Uniformity of Traces: Evidence from Ellipsis Parallelism

This article presents an argument from ellipsis parallelism that traces of all types of movement receive a bound variable interpretation at LF. MaxElide, a constraint on ellipsis, is used to probe the size of parallelism domains and detect the semantic contribution of a variety of traces. The data e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hartman, Jeremy
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: MIT Press 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66500