Parasitic Gaps and the Across-the-Board Phenomenon

The position that parasitic gaps (PGs) are a special case of the type of extraction seen in coordinate structures, recently reformulated by Edwin Williams (see LLBA 25/2, 9103781), is refuted by demonstrating that English PGs not only have more restrictive licensing conditions than coordinate gaps b...

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Published in:Linguistic inquiry 1993-10, Vol.24 (4), p.735-754
Main Author: Postal, Paul M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Coordinate systems
Linguistic theory
Linguistics
Paints
Parasitism
Pizzas
Pronominalization
Pronouns
Remarks and Replies
Slaves
Soups
Theoretical points. Linguistic concepts
Zombies
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Summary:The position that parasitic gaps (PGs) are a special case of the type of extraction seen in coordinate structures, recently reformulated by Edwin Williams (see LLBA 25/2, 9103781), is refuted by demonstrating that English PGs not only have more restrictive licensing conditions than coordinate gaps but share them with five other types of gap construction, all of which are quite different from coordinate structures: (1) object-raising, (2) complement object deletion, (3) purposive, (4) instruction context deletion, & (5) infinitival relative constructions. Difficulties with other current explanations of PGs are noted; it is proposed that PGs, like (1-5), are a control phenomenon & that they involve the extraction & invisibility of a pronoun. 39 References. J. Hitchcock
ISSN:0024-3892
1530-9150