Exceptive Phrases in Romanian. A Fragment-based Analysis
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چکیده
In the past 25 years EPs have been paid particular attention, thanks to the pioneering studies of Jacob Hoeksema (for instance, Hoeksema 1987). Presently, we already dispose of in-depth studies about the semantics of EPs (Moltmann 1995, Lappin 1996, Garcia Álvarez 2008). As for grammatical aspects of EPs, they came under focus more recently. A peculiar direction of research stimulated by the papers of Jason Merchant on ellipsis tends to assimilate the incomplete character of EPs to structural ellipsis (Pérez-Jiménez and Moreno-Quibén 2012). The present paper also addresses grammatical aspects of EPs. By taking Romanian as the case study, we make a critical evaluation of the arguments employed to support the ellipsis approach to EPs. The discussion ends with the conclusion that Romanian EPs cannot be seen as elliptical structures. We argue instead that the incomplete constituency of EPs may be explained through the concept of fragment, put forward as a distinct linguistic entity in the HPSG theory. The conclusion holds for other languages, as well. The structure of the paper is as follows. We begin with some current notions involved in the analysis of EPs in general. We then review the arguments adduced in favour of the ellipsis status of EPs and show that they do not have the relevance they are expected to have. In alternative, we argue that a non-derivational analysis is preferable and we show that, due to the concept of fragment, the incomplete constituency of EPs may be well accommodated with their full propositional semantics.
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