Verb Phrase Ellipsis and v: Evidence from Hocak

Johnson, Meredith Ledlie

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“…Rouveret (2012) concludes that the morphosyntactic dimension must be part of any account of VPE. See also Rouveret (1989) and Johnson (2013). 14 For a different type of TP ellipsis, referred to as Modal Ellipsis or Null Complement Anaphora (NCA), see Dagnac (2010) for French, Spanish and Italian, Brucart (1999) for Spanish, Depiante (2000; for Spanish and Italian, Cyrino/Matos (2006) and Gonçalves/Matos (2009), for Portuguese.…”

Section: (I) In Vp Ellipsis the Elliptical Verbal Predicate Is Licensmentioning

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15 VP and TP ellipsis: Sentential polarity and information structure

Martins¹

2016

Manual of Grammatical Interfaces in Romance

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VP and TP Ellipsis: sentential polarity and information structureThis paper focuses on two types of predicate ellipsis, namely Verbal Phrase Ellipsis (VPE), also known in the literature as Verb-stranding ellipsis, and Tense Phrase Ellipsis (TPE), also called Stripping or Polarity Ellipsis. It suggests that the polarity-encoding functional category ΣP is involved in the licensing of both types of predicate ellipsis, but only VPE requires that the verb be morphosyntactically associated with the Σ-head. The more restrictive licensing conditions imposed on VPE, relative to TPE, explain its more restricted distribution across languages. At the same time, it permits to account for the correlation between the availability of VPE and a particular type of (typologically rarer) answering system where the bare verb constitutes the unmarked pattern of minimal polar affirmative answer. The paper then concentrates on comparing VP and TP ellipsis in one of the few Romance languages where both types of predicate ellipsis are allowed, viz. European Portuguese, and describes their different articulation with discourse and information structure. The fact that VPE and TPE might not be in free variation in European Portuguese is shown to be a consequence of the different information structure of the elliptical clause in each type of ellipsis. VPE is an instance of single focus (that can be assigned to different constituents) and is subject to a parallelism constraint on contrastive topic structures (Kertz 2013); TPE features double focus bearing on the polarity word and the constituent preceding it.VP ellipsis, TP ellipsis, polarity, answering system, information structure, topic, focus, Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan IntroductionThis chapter deals with two types of predicate ellipsis, namely VP Ellipsis (VPE) and TP Ellipsis (TPE, here restricted to what has been known in the literature as stripping or polarity ellipsis). 1 The chapter comprises five sections. In section 2, it is shown that languages that allow VPE and languages that bar it display different patterns of polar answering system. In the languages with VPE the verb by itself may express confirmation or denial, behaving as a polar word in specific pragmatic contexts. Hence, observing the role of VPE in the domain of polar answering systems brings about the interface between syntax and semantics/pragmatics. A number of empirical arguments ranging through different languages are put forth in section 2 to support the idea that VPE and the grammatical expression of 1 I am grateful to Susann Fischer and two anonymous reviewers for their challenging and very helpful comments on a previous version of this chapter. It goes without saying that all shortcomings are mine. Research for this work was funded by FCT -Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia within the project WOChWEL (PTDC/CLE-LIN/121707/2010).Martins, Ana Maria (2016). VP and TP Ellipsis: sentential polarity and information structure. In: Susann Fischer and Christoph Gabriel (eds.), Grammatical Interfaces in Romance. Be...

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Section: (I) In Vp Ellipsis the Elliptical Verbal Predicate Is Licensmentioning

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15 VP and TP ellipsis: Sentential polarity and information structure

Martins¹

2016

Manual of Grammatical Interfaces in Romance

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“…While it is known that certain agreement mismatches between the antecedent and target clauses are tolerated by ellipsis, they all must be resolved at the derivational point at which ellipsis occurs and no later. Aelbrecht 2010, Johnson 2015, and Sailor 2022 document a range of bleeding effects that ellipsis has on movement and agreement dependencies that cross its boundaries. Crucially, in all of them, the higher dependent is located above the head that triggers ellipsis.…”

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More doubts on verb‐stranding VP ellipsis: Reply to Simpson 2023

Landau

2023

Syntax

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Advocating a verb‐stranding‐VP‐ellipsis analysis for object‐gap sentences, Andrew Simpson (“In defense of verb‐stranding VP ellipsis”) argues that under negation the “adjunct reading” is missing because it depends on focal stress, which cannot be realized on unpronounced material. No such condition holds, I maintain, and the absence of the adjunct reading reflects a syntactic absence: argument‐ellipsis sites contain no VP adjuncts. The adjunct reading emerges in some languages when the antecedent sentence is negative too, an inexplicable contingency for the verb‐stranding‐VP‐ellipsis analysis; in fact, these constructions involve polarity ellipsis (of TP), in which VP adjuncts are included. However, this derivation is not available to all languages, explaining some crosslinguistic differences in adjunct readings under negation. Finally, an optional adjunct reading may emerge in affirmative object‐gap sentences due to pragmatic enrichment, a process sensitive to context in ways that go beyond the predictions of the syntactic analysis advocated by Simpson.

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Verb Phrase Ellipsis and v: Evidence from Hocak

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15 VP and TP ellipsis: Sentential polarity and information structure

15 VP and TP ellipsis: Sentential polarity and information structure

More doubts on verb‐stranding VP ellipsis: Reply to Simpson 2023

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