Abstract
A number of works have attempted to account for the interaction between movement and ellipsis in terms of an economy condition Max- Elide. We show that the elimination of MaxElide leads to an empirically superior account of these interactions. We show that a number of the core effects attributed to MaxElide can be accounted for with a parallelism condition on ellipsis. The remaining cases are then treated with a generalized economy condition that favors shorter derivations over longer ones. The resulting analysis has no need for the ellipsisspecific economy constraint MaxElide.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 306-332 |
Number of pages | 27 |
Journal | Linguistic Inquiry |
Volume | 47 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 1 2016 |
Keywords
- Economy
- Ellipsis
- MaxElide
- Movement
- Parallelism
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Language and Linguistics
- Linguistics and Language