When Movement fails to Reconstruct
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en
Chapitre d'ouvrage
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Merging Features, Merging Features. 2009p. 157-174
Oxford University Press
Résumé en anglais
This chapter on resumption argues for an account for reconstruction based syntactically on the presence of copies resulting from movement or ellipsis, and semantically on copy interpretation as indefinite or definite. Such ...Lire la suite >
This chapter on resumption argues for an account for reconstruction based syntactically on the presence of copies resulting from movement or ellipsis, and semantically on copy interpretation as indefinite or definite. Such analysis provides a straightforward explanation to major syntactic and semantic properties of resumption: availability of reconstruction within islands, lack of pair-list readings.< Réduire
Mots clés en anglais
reconstruction
resumption
ellipsis
islandhood
pair-list
functional
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