A Hybrid Approach to English Verb Phrase Ellipsis
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Verb Phrase Ellipsis (VPE, hereafter) is a complex phenomenon where a verb phrase (VP) constituent does not appear under some kind of identity with another VP in the discourse (Potsdam 1997: 353). This research gives an analysis of VPE in English finite clauses. The various circumstances of VPE are permitted in systematic ways. I mainly adopt the analyses given by Lasnik (1995, 1999) in the hybrid lexical properties towards main verbs versus auxiliary verbs and Kim (1998, 2000) in different lexical types of the negative word not. The analysis of this paper is given in the generative framework. This paper accounts for VPE in English finite clauses under the following claims. First, main verbs in English are bare in the lexicon while auxiliary verbs have and be are fully inflected, following Lasnik’s (1995, 1999) theory. Second, VPE is permitted when it shows morphological identity between the target VPs and their antecedents; and the elided target VPs are c-commanded by T. Unlike Lasnik’s theory, the stranded affix filter is not supported in this paper. Third, the English negated word not is analyzed as either the head of NegP, which takes TP as a complement phrase, or an adverb adjoining to V’ or Asp’, following Kim’s (1998) analysis in the non-transformational approach. Unlike the Neg head not, the negated word not, including any other adverbs, cannot be stranded due to their semantic interpretation. The apparently complicated VPE phenomenon is analyzed systematically by the different lexical properties of the words in the syntactic phrase structures.
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Verb Phrase Ellipsis (VPE, hereafter) is a complex phenomenon where a verb phrase (VP) constituent does not appear under some kind of identity with another VP in the discourse (Potsdam 1997: 353). This research gives an analysis of VPE in English finite clauses. The various circumstances of VPE are permitted in systematic ways. I mainly adopt the analyses given by Lasnik (1995, 1999) in the hybrid lexical properties towards main verbs versus auxiliary verbs and Kim (1998, 2000) in different lexical types of the negative word not. The analysis of this paper is given in the generative framework. This paper accounts for VPE in English finite clauses under the following claims. First, main verbs in English are bare in the lexicon while auxiliary verbs have and be are fully inflected, following Lasnik’s (1995, 1999) theory. Second, VPE is permitted when it shows morphological identity between the target VPs and their antecedents; and the elided target VPs are c-commanded by T. Unlike Lasnik’s theory, the stranded affix filter is not supported in this paper. Third, the English negated word not is analyzed as either the head of NegP, which takes TP as a complement phrase, or an adverb adjoining to V’ or Asp’, following Kim’s (1998) analysis in the non-transformational approach. Unlike the Neg head not, the negated word not, including any other adverbs, cannot be stranded due to their semantic interpretation. The apparently complicated VPE phenomenon is analyzed systematically by the different lexical properties of the words in the syntactic phrase structures.
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