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Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 14: Selected papers from the 46th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Stony Brook, NY
Edited by Lori Repetti and Francisco Ordóñez
[Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 14] 2018
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Chapter 18
Resumed phrases (are always moved, even with in-island resumption)

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On the basis of the properties of resumption in colloquial spoken French, I conclude that resumption of a phrase by a pronominal element always involve run of the mill movement of this phrase, whether the resumptive pronoun is inside an island or not. I propose that such movement can take place in two steps, the first being one of the Left Dislocation options, which feeds a variety of possible second steps (e.g., wh-movement or Clitic Left Dislocation).

Keywords: resumption, movement, island, reconstruction, Dislocation, clitic left dislocation
Article outline
  • 1.Intro: Resumption
    • 1.1Background
      • 1.1.1Reconstruction
      • 1.1.2Analyses of resumption
  • 2.Resumption in islands: Mixed two-step
    • 3.Mixed two-step without islands
  • 4.Analytical consequences: Movement and resumption
  • 5.Where is P and what is it?
  • 6.Independent evidence for MTS derivations
    • 6.1Selayarese
    • 6.2Irish
  • 6.3Conclusion
  • 7.Brief crosslinguistic comparison
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 13 August 2018
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