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Voice and Ellipsis
Linguistic Inquiry - Tập 44 Số 1 - Trang 77-108 - 2013
Jason Merchant
Elided VPs and their antecedent VPs can mismatch in voice, with passive VPs being elided under apparent identity with active antecedent VPs, and vice versa. Such voice mismatches are not allowed in any other kind of ellipsis, such as sluicing and other clausal ellipses. These latter facts appear to indicate that the identity relation in ellipsis is sensitive to syntactic form, not merely t...... hiện toàn bộ
The Explicit Syntax of Implicit Arguments
Linguistic Inquiry - Tập 41 Số 3 - Trang 357-388 - 2010
Idan Landau
Although they participate in control relations, implicit arguments are standardly viewed as unprojected ϑ-roles, absent from the syntax. I challenge this view and argue that implicit arguments are syntactically represented. The argument rests on the observation that implicit arguments can exercise partial control, and the claim that partial control must be encoded in the syntax (given pla...... hiện toàn bộ
Books and Journals Received
Linguistic Inquiry - - 2008
Broaden Your Views: Implicatures of Domain Widening and the “Logicality” of Language
Linguistic Inquiry - Tập 37 Số 4 - Trang 535-590 - 2006
Gennaro Chierchia
This article presents a unified theory of polarity-sensitive items (PSIs) based on the notion of domain widening. PSIs include negative polarity items (like Italian mai ‘ever’), universal free choice items (like Italian qualunque ‘any/whatever’), and existential free choice items (like Italian uno qualunque ‘a whatever’). The proposal is based on a ‘‘recursive,’’ grammatically driven appr...... hiện toàn bộ
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