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Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 12: Selected papers from the 45th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Campinas, Brazil
Edited by Ruth E.V. Lopes, Juanito Ornelas de Avelar and Sonia M. L. Cyrino
[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 12] 2017
► pp. 141–158

Chapter 10
TP ellipsis with polarity particles

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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.
Keywords: TP-ellipsis, islands, finiteness, parataxis, parallelism, T-chains
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
    • 4.1The identity of T-features
    • 4.2TP ellipsis, finiteness and T-chains
    • 4.3T-ellipsis and recovering under identity
  • 5.Summarizing
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 19 October 2017
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