Chapter 18
Resumed phrases (are always moved, even with in-island resumption)
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).
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
- 6.3Conclusion
- 7.Brief crosslinguistic comparison
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Notes
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