Evidence for deletion in as-parentheticals

LaCara, Nicholas

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“…Consequently, the clausal complement is then the inflectional or tense phrase (IP/TP), or a lower layer of CP if there are several shells (e.g., in als-of 'as if' comparative clauses). 21 Notice that this runs counter to assumptions in Emonds (1985), Potts (2002) and LaCara (2013), who take the English counterpart as to be a preposition with a CP complement, but without convincing evidence.…”

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On V2, gaps, and operators in comment and reporting parentheticals

Kluck¹,

Vries²

2015

Parenthetical Verbs

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Abstract. Parenthetical comment and reporting clauses exhibit various interesting properties, which are shown to be related. Three different word order patterns are attested in Dutch and German: apparent V1, V2 and V-final; the internal argument of the parenthetical verb is usually missing; there is an optional so/zo element; the construction is island-sensitive. These patterns are explained by means of an operator that is A´-moved inside the parenthetical, and which can optionally be lexicalized in the first position. The V-final pattern arises when a complementizer is present, which is the case in propositional as-parentheticals.Keywords: comment clause, reporting clause, as-parenthetical, operator, anaphoric so, word order, verb second (V2) Introduction and brief overviewWe investigate the internal syntax of parenthetical comment and reporting clauses, and potential generalizations over various subtypes.* A classic puzzle concerns the position of the finite verb in intercalated or utterance-final comment clauses. Three variants are attested: apparent V1, V2, and V-final (modulo extraposed elements). This is illustrated in Dutch in (1a-c), where the relevant verb is underlined. Similar word order patterns are used in German.Thereby, we discuss word order patterns, the nature of possible argument gaps, and the interpretation and position of elements such as zo/so and zoals/wie/as primarily in Dutch, while pointing out striking parallels with German and English, as well as some differences between the three languages.(1) a.Bob is, vermoed ik, een echte charmeur. Bob is suspect I a true charmer 'Bob is, I suspect, a true charmer.' b.Bob is, zo vermoed ik, een echte charmeur. Bob is so suspect I a true charmer 'Bob is, so I suspect, a true charmer.' c.Bob is, zoals ik al vermoedde, een echte charmeur. Bob is as I already suspected a true charmer 'Bob is, as I already suspected, a true charmer.' Such comment clauses, and reporting clauses likewise, have a parenthetical status. The zero hypothesis, then, is that they are main clauses, which trigger verb second in Dutch, unless there is an internal complementizer that gives rise to a subordinate clause pattern with a final verb. Indeed, examples (1a/b) clearly show an interrupting main clause with an optional first element zo, which we analyze as a kind of operator. Section 2 works out these claims. Section 3 highlights the problem of the base position of the zo-operator, and discusses its interpretation and status in more detail. Section 4 concerns the parenthetical type in (1c), which is somewhat different. Here, the word order is that of a subordinate clause. This is due to the fact that the complementizer position is occupied by the comparative als. We * Thanks to the organizers and the audience of Parenthétiques 2012 (Paris Nanterre), and in particular Stefan Schneider. We are grateful to the anonymous reviewers for useful comments and questions.

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“…It has been widely acknowledged in the literature that the gaps in English as-parentheticals may correspond to CPs as well as any predicate-denoting phrase (Potts 2002, LaCara 2013. Dutch and German lack this last type of as-parentheticals.…”

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On V2, gaps, and operators in comment and reporting parentheticals

Kluck¹,

Vries²

2015

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Spanish modal ellipsis is not null complement anaphora

Sánchez

2023

Linguistics

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Modal verbs are well-known to license ellipsis of their complements under certain conditions. In the literature on Spanish, such sequences, which I refer to as Modal Ellipsis (ME), have been traditionally argued to involve a null pronoun. These analyses therefore treat ME simply as an instance of Null Complement Anaphora (NCA). In this article, I scrutinize the data adduced in the literature on Spanish and defend that (i) ME in this language is different from NCA, and (ii) that ME must involve PF-deletion of a TP node. Even though these claims are not new, I provide novel data in an attempt to clarify some of the controversial facts and claims that exist in the Spanish literature. In doing so, I strengthen the recent view of ME as a PF-deletion phenomenon.

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Labeling in Inversion Constructions

MAEDA

2021

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This study investigates labeling in inversion constructions including locative inversion, as-inversion, so-inversion, and comparative inversion. I argue that in inverted focus constructions, where the subject stays in the vP-internal position, the complement YP of an {XP, YP} structure should undergo movement or ellipsis to avoid labeling failure. Furthermore, the absence of subject movement in inversion constructions may cause a problem for the weak T in English, which needs spec-head agreement to be strengthened. I propo se that T that lacks the φ-agreeing element within TP should undergo internal pair-Merge to C, creating either or . This assumption is examined in terms of the visibility of T regarding subject-aux inversion, sentential negation and VP-ellipsis.*

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Evidence for deletion in as-parentheticals

Abstract: This paper investigates the use of ellipsis diagnostics to determine whether deletion has occurred in

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On V2, gaps, and operators in comment and reporting parentheticals

On V2, gaps, and operators in comment and reporting parentheticals

Spanish modal ellipsis is not null complement anaphora

Labeling in Inversion Constructions

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