On a nonargument for cleft sources in sluicing
- 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.
| Author details: | Luis VicenteORCiDGND, Matthew Barros, Troy Messick, Andres Saab |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1162/ling_a_00390 |
| ISSN: | 0024-3892 |
| ISSN: | 1530-9150 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Linguistic inquiry |
| Publisher: | MIT Press |
| Place of publishing: | Cambridge |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2021/10/05 |
| Publication year: | 2021 |
| Release date: | 2024/02/16 |
| Tag: | content; contextual restriction; ellipsis identity; inheritance of; sluicing |
| Volume: | 52 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Number of pages: | 14 |
| First page: | 867 |
| Last Page: | 880 |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
| DDC classification: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access / Bronze Open-Access |
| License (German): |  Keine öffentliche Lizenz: Unter Urheberrechtsschutz |
