On a Nonargument for Cleft Sources in Sluicing

• Luis Vicente ^[1] ; Matthew Barros ^[2] ; Troy Messick ^[3] ; Andrés Saab ^[4]
  1. [1] University of Potsdam

     University of Potsdam

     Kreisfreie Stadt Potsdam, Alemania

     
  2. [2] Washington University in St. Louis

     Washington University in St. Louis

     Estados Unidos

     
  3. [3] Rutgers University

     Rutgers University

     City of New Brunswick, Estados Unidos

     
  4. [4] Universidad de Buenos Aires

     Universidad de Buenos Aires

     Argentina

     

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• Localización: Linguistic inquiry, ISSN 0024-3892, Vol. 52, Nº 4, 2021, págs. 867-880
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • On the basis of certain semantic intuitions, Barros (2012) argues that ellipsis does not require structural isomorphism between elided structure and its antecedent. We tackle this claim. Semantic intuitions cannot be a pointer to the analysis of silent structure. We provide empirical evidence that raises the question of to what extent semantic intuitions about plausible articulable syntax must inform one’s analysis of silent structure. We conclude that the answer to this question must be crosslinguistically informed. We conjecture that ellipsis introduces ellipsis-specific interpretive mechanisms, so that intuitions about “how the unelided structure would be interpreted” are not empirically relevant.