Publication: VP Ellipsis and Topicalization
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2004
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Szczegielniak, Adam. 2006. “VP Ellipsis And Topicalization”. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, ed. Leah Bateman and Cherlon Ussery, October 22-24, 2004, Storrs, Connecticut, 603-614. Amherst, MA: BookSurge Publishing.
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This paper supports the model where VP ellipsis is licensed via de-stressing which in turn is licensed via Focus closure (Rooth 1992). However, it is also argued that we have to assume that ellipsis is preceded by the establishment of Focus/Topic relations in overt syntax. This can be done in two ways: by focusing the subject, provided a Σ head is in the numeration, or by topicalizing the VP. The first strategy gives rise to non bare-VP ellipsis, the second to bare-VP ellipsis.
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