TY - JOUR A1 - Vicente, Luis T1 - A note on the movement analysis of gapping Y1 - 2010 UR - http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/lin/ SN - 0024-3892 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Vicente, Luis T1 - Free versus bound variables and the taxonomy of gaps JF - Natural language semantics : an international journal of semantics and its interfaces in grammar N2 - Potts (Nat Lang Linguist Theory 20:623–689, 2002a) et seq. presents an analysis of gap-containing supplements (primarily, as-parentheticals) where the gap is modelled as a variable over the semantic type of the constituent that the as-clause adjoins to (the anchor). This much allows the meaning of the gap to be resolved purely compositionally, by defining as as a function that allows the anchor to bind the gap variable. This article presents a class of as-clauses where Potts’s analysis seems to break down, in that the gap cannot be modelled as a variable over the semantic type of the anchor. I propose that these cases can be unified with those in Potts’s work, as well as a larger class of ellipsis phenomena, by assuming that, under certain conditions, surface gaps are composite entities, containing a bound variable and a free variable that are resolved independently of each other. The bound variable is bound by the anchor (just as in Potts’s account), and the free variable is resolved by anaphora to a salient discourse object. KW - As-clauses KW - Ellipsis sites KW - Variable resolution Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-016-9123-6 SN - 0925-854X SN - 1572-865X VL - 24 SP - 203 EP - 245 PB - Springer CY - Dordrecht ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Vicente, Luis A1 - Barros, Matthew A1 - Messick, Troy A1 - Saab, Andres T1 - On a nonargument for cleft sources in sluicing JF - Linguistic inquiry N2 - On the basis of certain semantic intuitions, Barros (2012) argues that ellipsis does not require structural isomorphism between elided structure and its antecedent. We tackle this claim. Semantic intuitions cannot be a pointer to the analysis of silent structure. We provide empirical evidence that raises the question of to what extent semantic intuitions about plausible articulable syntax must inform one's analysis of silent structure. We conclude that the answer to this question must be crosslinguistically informed. We conjecture that ellipsis introduces ellipsis-specific interpretive mechanisms, so that intuitions about "how the unelided structure would be interpreted" are not empirically relevant. KW - sluicing KW - contextual restriction KW - ellipsis identity KW - inheritance of KW - content Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00390 SN - 0024-3892 SN - 1530-9150 VL - 52 IS - 4 SP - 867 EP - 880 PB - MIT Press CY - Cambridge ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Vicente, Luis T1 - On the syntax of adversative coordination N2 - A series of studies have distinguished two types of but, namely, corrective and counterexpectational. The difference between these two types has been considered largely semantic/pragmatic. This article shows that the semantic difference also translates into a different syntax for each type of but. More precisely, corrective but always requires clause-level coordination, with apparent counterexamples being derived through ellipsis within the second conjunct. On the other hand, counterexpectational but is not restricted in this way, and offers the possibility of coordination of both clausal and subclausal constituents. From this difference, it is possible to derive a number of syntactic asymmetries between corrective and counterexpectational but. Y1 - 2010 UR - http://www.springerlink.com/content/102968 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-010-9094-0 SN - 0167-806X ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Vicente, Luis T1 - Phase theory JF - Journal of linguistics Y1 - 2011 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226711000193 SN - 0022-2267 VL - 47 IS - 3 SP - 719 EP - 724 PB - Cambridge Univ. Press CY - New York ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lipták, Anika A1 - Vicente, Luis T1 - Pronominal doubling under predicate topicalization N2 - This paper examines the behavior of VP topicalization in two unrelated languages, Hungarian and Spanish. It will show that in spite of the superficial similarity between the elements involved in such topicalization, the two languages employ a fundamentally different strategy in the derivation of these sentences. Hungarian fronts the VP material and spells it out in the form of a resumptive pronoun in the left periphery, in a mechanism similar to that described in Grohmann (2003). Spanish on the other hand generates the resumptive pronominal as an argument internal to the clause. This difference in the two derivations correlates with other differences in VP topicalization in the two languages. Y1 - 2009 UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00243841 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2007.11.007 SN - 0024-3841 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Vicente, Luis T1 - Sluicing - Cross-linguistic perspectives JF - Language : journal of the Linguistic Society of America Y1 - 2013 SN - 0097-8507 SN - 1535-0665 VL - 89 IS - 3 SP - 653 EP - 655 PB - Linguistic Society of America CY - Washington ER - TY - GEN A1 - Cheng, Lisa Lai-Shen A1 - Vicente, Luis T1 - Verb doubling in Mandarin Chinese T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe N2 - This article examines two so-far-understudied verb doubling constructions in Mandarin Chinese, viz., verb doubling clefts and verb doubling lian…dou. We show that these constructions have the same internal syntax as regular clefts and lian…dou sentences, the doubling effect being epiphenomenal; therefore, we classify them as subtypes of the general cleft and lian…dou constructions, respectively, rather than as independent constructions. Additionally, we also show that, as in many other languages with comparable constructions, the two instances of the verb are part of a single movement chain, which has the peculiarity of allowing Spell-Out of more than one link. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 629 KW - Mandarin Chinese KW - verb doubling KW - verb movement KW - cleft KW - lian…dou Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-436880 SN - 1866-8364 IS - 629 SP - 1 EP - 37 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Cheng, Lisa Lai-Shen A1 - Vicente, Luis T1 - Verb doubling in Mandarin Chinese JF - Journal of East Asian linguistics N2 - This article examines two so-far-understudied verb doubling constructions in Mandarin Chinese, viz., verb doubling clefts and verb doubling lianaEuro broken vertical bar dou. We show that these constructions have the same internal syntax as regular clefts and lianaEuro broken vertical bar dou sentences, the doubling effect being epiphenomenal; therefore, we classify them as subtypes of the general cleft and lianaEuro broken vertical bar dou constructions, respectively, rather than as independent constructions. Additionally, we also show that, as in many other languages with comparable constructions, the two instances of the verb are part of a single movement chain, which has the peculiarity of allowing Spell-Out of more than one link. KW - Mandarin Chinese KW - Verb doubling KW - Verb movement KW - Cleft KW - lian ... dou Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s10831-012-9095-6 SN - 0925-8558 VL - 22 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 37 PB - Springer CY - Dordrecht ER - TY - GEN A1 - Vicente, Luis T1 - Ángel J. Gallego, Phase theory T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 539 Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-413116 SN - 1866-8364 IS - 539 SP - 719 EP - 724 ER -