Fragments and Ellipsis

• Published in: Linguistics and philosophy Vol. 27; no. 6; pp. 661 - 738
• Main Author: Merchant, Jason
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Heidelberg Kluwer Academic Publishers 01.12.2004; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Anaphora; Antecedents; Barriers; Descriptive studies and applied theories; Ellipses; Ellipsis; Grammatical clauses; Linguistics; Merchants; Movement; Phonetic form; Pronouns; Question Answer Sequences; Sentence Structure; Syntactic models; Syntactic movement; Syntactic Structures; Syntactics; Syntax; Syntax Phonology Relationship; Theoretical linguistics; Syntactic island; Ellipsis; Semantic interpretation; Movement transformation; Generative syntax; Sentence member

Fragmentary utterances such as 'short' answers and subsentential XPs without linguistic antecedents are proposed to have fully sentential syntactic structures, subject to ellipsis. Ellipsis in these cases is preceded by A′-movement of the fragment to a clause-peripheral position; the combi...