On an undocumented type of predicate ellipsis in Spanish and its consequences for the theory of ellipsis licensing

• Andrés Saab ^{[1] [3]} ; Laura Stigliano ^[2]
  1. [1] Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

     Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas

     Argentina

     
  2. [2] Ohio State University

     Ohio State University

     City of Columbus, Estados Unidos

     
  3. [3] Universidad de Buenos Aires

     Universidad de Buenos Aires

     Argentina

     

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• Localización: Isogloss: Open Journal of Romance Linguistics, ISSN-e 2385-4138, Vol. 9, Vol. 4, 2023 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Trending topics in Romance linguistics)
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.5565/rev/isogloss.354
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  • In this paper, we introduce and discuss a type of ellipsis in Spanish, undocumented in the previous literature, which we will refer to as Predicate Phrase Ellipsis (PredP-Ellipsis), and its consequences for the theory of ellipsis licensing. PredP-Ellipsis is a type of ellipsis in which the complement of a copular verb undergoes deletion, whenever there is contrastive focus (typically encoded in Polarity) involved in the sentence. We provide an account for why this type of ellipsis is allowed in a language that lacks lower ellipses in the verbal domain (such as vP-Ellipsis), and implement our proposal by introducing an [E]-feature which is typically licensed when it enters into an Agree relation with a Polarity head higher in the structure.

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