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Pseudo-Coordination and Multiple Agreement Constructions
Edited by Giuliana Giusti, Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro and Daniel Ross
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 274] 2022
► pp. 169–190

Chapter 7
Pseudo-coordination and ellipsis

Expressive insights from Brazilian Portuguese and Polish

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In this paper, we offer some comments about the syntax of pseudo-coordination in colloquial registers of Brazilian Portuguese and Polish. Focusing on V1-take (and) pseudo-coordination, we suggest that, in both of them, V1-take (and) belongs to the expressive realm of language and we analyze V1-take (and) as an appositive element adjoined to vP in the extended projection of V2. In addition to the meaning of the structure, evidence for the expressive nature of V1-take (and) comes from the fact that it can be ignored for ellipsis purposes in contexts such as verb-echo answers, polarity contrast, verb-doubling and VP-topicalization. Evidence for the positioning of V1-take (and) at the vP edge is provided by distributional patterns, including the placement of adverbs and sentential negation with respect to V1-take (and) and V2. We propose that two minimally different structures are available for pseudo-coordination, depending on whether a coordinator accompanies V1.

Keywords: pseudo-coordination, ellipsis, expressive language, verb-echo answers
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Pseudo-coordination in Brazilian Portuguese and Polish
  • 3.Verb echo answers in Brazilian Portuguese and Polish
  • 4.Pseudo-coordination meets ellipsis
    • 4.1Expressive elements under ellipsis
  • 5.Pseudo-coordination and appositives
  • 6.Main conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
  • Appendix
Published online: 16 March 2022
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