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Silently Structured Silent ArgumentYuta Sakamoto
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 259] 2020
► pp. 167–224
Yuta Sakamoto
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 259] 2020
► pp. 167–224
Chapter 5Silent arguments = Overtly empty but covertly complex
Article outline
- 5.1PF-deletion versus LF-copying
- 5.2Elliptic arguments via LF-copying
- 5.3Theoretical implications
- 5.3.1Null operator movement = LF-movement
- 5.3.1.1Chomsky (1995): Strong feature versus weak feature
- 5.3.1.2Subjacency
- 5.3.1.3Parasitic gap
- 5.3.2Against base-generation + merger
- 5.3.2.1Chung, Ladusaw and McCloskey (1995) and related issues
- 5.3.2.2Argument ellipsis and locality
- 5.3.2.3Argument ellipsis and absence of island-repair
- 5.3.3PF-deletion versus LF-copying revisited: A view from phases
- 5.3.1Null operator movement = LF-movement
- 5.4Consequences for other syntactic phenomena
- 5.4.1Case-marked cleft
- 5.4.2Split QP
- 5.4.3Control
- 5.4.4Wh-in-situ
- 5.5Summary of the chapter
- Appendix: Wh-in-situ and null arguments cross-linguistically
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