![]() ![]() Stronger, preventing a Gap or its antecedent from excluding the highest verb In fact, it is likely that this constraint is even Shows is that the Gapped material, and its antecedent, must include the verb Rather, what the contrast between (20) and (21) Nothing wrong with a verb in an embedded clause being part of the Gapped Now, when Ross's examples in (4) are considered, we can see that there is Rather than as a single clause with an embedded coördination, it is ungrammatical. If (21) is understood as a (somewhat awkward) conjunction of two clauses, *I think that Alfonse stole the emeralds, and Mugsy stole the pearls. That is in an embedded clause, as in (20). Hankamer 1979 discovered that Gapping cannot affect a verb Necessary first to appreciate one of the constraints that controls which To see the reason for classifying (8) as a Gapping construction, it is (i.e., Betsy has a desire to read a book or a magazine). And this, or something like it, could be the appropriate representationįor this sentence when it gets the first of the interpretations described It is consistent with standard views of coördination that (17)Ĭould arise by disjoining a book and a magazine in the embeddedĬlause. 5īut note that for cases like (17), it is not necessary that Gapping be the Probably the form of ellipsis responsible. Like (9), (14) and (17) and given Neijt's argument from (16), Gapping is ![]() These are reasons, then, for believing that ellipsis can produce examples This follows from the plausible thesis that either marks the leftĮdge of a disjunction, which would force (19) to be a disjunction of clausesįrom which all but the object has Gapped in the second clause. So, for instance, he suggests that in languages, like JapaneseĪnd Russian, where a complement may precede its verb, Gapping is responsibleĮither Betsy wanted to read a book or a magazine. It will Gap from the initial conjuncts, and the antecedent will be found If the verb follows its complements, on the other hand, then Suggests that if the verb would precede its complements, then it will Gapįrom the second, or subsequent, conjuncts, and the first conjunct will hold Verb would have to other terms in its sentence if it hadn't elided. In which a verb is Gapped is determined by the linear position that that The goal of his paper, in fact, is to defend the thesis that the conjunct ![]() Restricting Gapping in this way, however, is not how Ross would have done This should be taken as a defining trait of Gapping. Holding the Gap in (1), (4) and (5) contains remnant material at the leftĪnd right edges, but this isn't so in (6). One feature that distinguishes (1), (4) and (5) from (6) is that the clause Both treatments have their problems, and evidence distinguishing them is difficult to find. That there is any ellipsis at all, and instead let the VPs ate and was put to bed conjoin to jointly take Sam as subject. That such a process, what Ross 1967 calls "Forward Conjunction Reduction,"Įxists has been widely speculated. It could be that there is an elision process, as indicated,ĭistinct from Gapping which removes material at the edges of a coördinate. Here removes the object of the first conjunct. (6a) is an example of what Postal 1974 called "Right Node Raising," which ![]() Jerry met the kids from OshKosh and Sally scrutinized the kids from OshKosh. ![]()
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