Licensing Conditions for VP Ellipsis: Multiple Sites Approach

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Licensing Conditions for VP Ellipsis: Multiple Sites Approach: Cho, Keeseok

28 February 2021. pp. 553-563

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Abstract

This article aims to discuss the ellipsis of the verb phrase in English and come up with new general licensing conditions under the framework of Chomsky (2013). The licensing conditions put forth in this study will account for English VP ellipsis in terms of a new alternative syntactic structure. The new alternative syntactic structure replaces Chomsky (2001)’s double verb phrase vP with four basic syntactic elements, such as Link, Perfect Aspect, Progressive Aspect, and V-v amalgam. The four basic syntactic elements are syntactic positions that accommodate relevant verbal lexical items. The general licensing conditions for the ellipsis of the verb phrase are: (i) The VP ellipsis elides the minimum of the progressive aspect phrase and elides the maximum of the perfect aspect phrase; (ii) The elided verbs and the antecedent verbs should be in the same type of syntactic positions to satisfy the identity conditions between the elided verbs and the antecedent verbs.

Keywords

ellipsis of verb phrase

general licensing conditions for ellipsis of verb phrase

new alternative syntactic structure

the minimum of the progressive phrase

the maximum of the perfect phrase

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Publisher :The Modern Linguistic Society of Korea
Publisher(Ko) :한국현대언어학회
Journal Title :The Journal of Studies in Language
Journal Title(Ko) :언어연구
Volume : 36
No :4
Pages :553-563
DOI :https://doi.org/10.18627/jslg.36.4.202102.553

[1] Baker, M. 1988. Incorporation: A Theory of Grammatical Function Changing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

[2] Borer, H. 2005. Structuring SENSE (2 vols.). Oxford : Oxford University Press. 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199263929.001.0001

[3] Bošković, Ž. 2014. Now I’m a Phase, now I’m not a Phase: On the Variability with Phases with Extraction and Ellipsis. Linguistic Inquiry 45, 27-89. 10.1162/LING_a_00148

[4] Chomsky, N. 1995. The Minimalist Program. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

[5] Chomsky, N. 2000. “The Minimalist Inquiries: The Framework,” in R. Martin et al. (eds.), Step by Step. Essays on Minimalist Syntax in Honor of Howard Lasnik, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 89-155.

[6] Chomsky, N. 2001. Derivation by Phase. In Michael Kenstowicz (ed.), Ken Halle: A Life in Language, 1-52. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

[7] Chomsky, N. 2010. On Phase. MA.: MIT.

[8] Chomsky, N. 2013. Problems of Projection: Lingua 130, 33-49. 10.1016/j.lingua.2012.12.003

[9] Gengel, K. 2007. “Phases and Ellipsis,” Ms., University of Stuttgart.

[10] Larson, R. K. 1988. On the Double Object Construction. Linguistic Inquiry 19, 335-391.

[11] Lasnik, H. 1999. Minimalist Analysis. Oxford: Blackwell.

[12] Rizzi, L. 1997. “The Fine Structure of the Left Periphery,” in L. Haegeman (ed.), Elements of Grammar. Handbook in Generative Syntax, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 281-337. 10.1007/978-94-011-5420-8_7 9413009

[13] Sag, I. 1976. Deletion and Logical Form. Dotoral Diss., MIT, Cambridge.

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