Chapter 10
TP ellipsis with polarity particles
TP-ellipsis with polarity particles exhibits island effects not only in cases of long-distance movement of the remnant but also when the remnant does not cross any island, showing that some non-overt element moves from the elided TP. Also in non-island contexts, TP-ellipsis with non-local antecedents is sensitive to finiteness. Correlating these properties I will argue that the null-T, the head of the elided TP, moves, for scope reasons, to the topmost sentence that relates the elliptical site to the sentence containing its antecedent. The resulting T-chains, which must preserve the finiteness value of each link, constitute a requirement for the identification of the elliptical-TP.
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.The structure of TP-ellipsis
- 2.1Stripping, TP-ellipsis and bare phrase construction
- 2.2The TP-ellipsis structure
- 3.TP-ellipsis and island sensitivity
- 3.1The exclusion of remnant long movement across islands
- 3.2Exclusion from islands without remnant movement
- 4.The identification of the head of TP-ellipsis
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4.1The identity of T-features
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4.2TP ellipsis, finiteness and T-chains
- 4.3T-ellipsis and recovering under identity
- 5.Summarizing
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Acknowledgements
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Notes
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References