Ellipsis, economy and the (non)uniformity of traces

• Troy Messick ^[1] ; Gary Thoms ^[2]
  1. [1] University of Connecticut

     University of Connecticut

     Town of Mansfield, Estados Unidos

     
  2. [2] University of Glasgow

     University of Glasgow

     Reino Unido

     
• Localización: Linguistic inquiry, ISSN 0024-3892, Vol. 47, Nº 2, 2016, págs. 306-332
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A number of works have attempted to account for the interaction between movement and ellipsis in terms of an economy condition Max- Elide. We show that the elimination of MaxElide leads to an empirically superior account of these interactions. We show that a number of the core effects attributed to MaxElide can be accounted for with a parallelism condition on ellipsis. The remaining cases are then treated with a generalized economy condition that favors shorter derivations over longer ones. The resulting analysis has no need for the ellipsisspecific economy constraint MaxElide.