v-Stranding VPE: Ellipsis in Farsi complex predicates

نویسندگان

  • Maziar Toosarvandani
  • Kyle Johnson
  • Jason Merchant
چکیده

English was long considered the only language to possess Verb Phrase Ellipsis (VPE), a process in which a verb phrase, identified in many standard accounts with the vP, goes missing under identity with the vP of an antecedent clause. An example of VPE in English is given in (1), where the elements struck through are not pronounced. A schematization of the relevant part of the structure is given in (2). (1) Jasper likes pecans and Mona does [like pecans] too. (2) TP

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تاریخ انتشار 2006