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How do you sluice when there is more than one CP? KU Leuven
This paper investigates the interaction between the syntax of sluicing and the split CP-hypothesis.
Linguistic Variation Yearbook 10 KU Leuven
The Linguistic Variation Yearbook is devoted to the study of the nature and scope of linguistic variation from the point of view of a Minimalist program. This enterprise aims at expressing the results and insights attained in generative grammar in a principled way. It critically examines and severely constrains the technical and notational apparatus available within the theory of grammar. The study of linguistic variation has developed both on ...
Invisible Last Resort. A note on clefts as the underlying source for sluicing KU Leuven
Merchant (2001:120–127) presents 10 arguments against an analysis of sluicing that posits an elided cleft in the ellipsis site. This seems at odds with the growing body of literature that argues sluicing can resort to underlying clefts in order to circumvent otherwise illicit instances of preposition stranding. In this short paper I reexamine Merchant’s arguments and show (a) that some of them are orthogonal to the issue at hand, and (b) that ...
Complex wh-phrases don’t move. On the interaction between the split CP-hypothesis and the syntax of wh-movement KU Leuven
This paper starts out from a set of well-known syntactic differences and similarities between simple wh-phrases such as who or what and complex ones such as which boy. It translates these observations into a cartographic account of the left periphery and then proceeds to show how this new proposal is able to account for a wide range of at first sight disparate data from English, German, Frisian and (dialectal) Dutch. The final part of the paper ...
Initiële verstemlozing bij tientallen KU Leuven
Linguistic Variation Yearbook 9 KU Leuven
The Linguistic Variation Yearbook is exclusively devoted to the study of the nature and scope of linguistic variation from the point of view of the minimalist program. In this perspective, the yearbook aims at going beyond the traditional tension between explanatory and descriptive adequacy. It seeks in particular to investigate to what extent the study of linguistic variation can shed light on the broader issue of language particular vs. ...
The syntax of ellipsis: evidence from Dutch dialects KU Leuven
The Syntax of Ellipsis investigates a number of elliptical constructions found in Dutch dialects within the framework of the Minimalist Program. Using two case studies, Van Craenenbroeck argues that both the PF-deletion and the pro-theory of ellipsis are needed to account for the full range of elliptical phenomena attested in natural language. The first case study focuses on instances of stranding to the right of a sluiced wh-phrase: ...
Invisible Last Resort - A note on clefts as the underlying source for sluicing KU Leuven
Merchant (2001:120-127) presents 10 arguments against an analysis of sluicing that posits an elided cleft in the ellipsis site. This seems at odds with the growing body of literature that argues sluicing can resort to underlying clefts in order to circumvent otherwise illicit instances of preposition stranding. In this short paper I reexamine Merchant's arguments and show (a) that some of them are orthogonal to the issue at hand, and (b) that ...