“…If Merchant
2013 is right, “larger” ellipsis should not allow for voice mismatch. Indeed, sluicing Example (8b) and gapping Example (8d) do not exhibit such acceptable mismatches.
But contrary to Merchant (
2013)’s predictions, in a corpus study, Miller (2014), as well as Kim & Runner (
2022), found attested examples of voice mismatch with pseudogapping (Example (9a)), that should not be possible under a raising remnant analysis (Kuno 1981) (NP, Noun Phrase, PP, Prepositional Phrase; VP, Verb Phrase):
We can conclude that structural identity-based approaches may either accept (Merchant
2013) or reject (Arregui et al
2006) voice mismatch, and have a hard time predicting which cases of voice mismatch are acceptable and which are not. It also remains to be tested whether voice mismatch is acceptable for other types of ellipsis than VP ellipsis and pseudogapping.…”