Rooth (1992) and Fiengo and May (1994) argue that elliptical structures are subject to both a semantic and a syntactic parallelism requirement. Pseudosluicing, where an elliptical cleft takes a non-cleft as its antecedent, pose a problem for the idea that there is a syntactic parallelism requirement. In this talk, we will look at Spanish data (building on the analysis of Rodrigues et al. 2008) ...