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  -