TY - JOUR
T1 - A two-source hypothesis for Gapping
AU - Potter, David
AU - Frazier, Michael
AU - Yoshida, Masaya
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Acknowledgements We would like to thank Brady Clark, Matt Goldrick, Kyle Johnson, Dave Kush, Jason Merchant, the NLLT reviewers and editors, and the audiences of GLOW 36, WCCFL 31, and the 89th annual meeting of the Linguistics Society of America for insightful discussions of the issues considered here. This work has been supported in part by NSF grant BCS-1323245 awarded to Masaya Yoshida.
Funding Information:
We would like to thank Brady Clark, Matt Goldrick, Kyle Johnson, Dave Kush, Jason Merchant, the NLLT reviewers and editors, and the audiences of GLOW 36, WCCFL 31, and the 89th annual meeting of the Linguistics Society of America for insightful discussions of the issues considered here. This work has been supported in part by NSF grant BCS-1323245 awarded to Masaya Yoshida.
PY - 2017/11/1
Y1 - 2017/11/1
N2 - In this paper, we argue that Gapping constructions like Jessie might order beans and Kerry rice are ambiguous between two structures: CP domain coordinate structures, and vP domain coordinate structures. Initial evidence for this structural ambiguity analysis comes from the scope ambiguity that such examples exhibit: scopal elements above the vP domain, such as the modal auxiliary might, can take wide scope above the coordinate structure, or distributive scope, under it. Scopal elements within the vP domain, like manner adverbs, take only distributive scope. This distribution follows directly from our two-source analysis: ambiguous scopal material is either contained within the CP sized conjuncts, yielding a distributive interpretation, or it occupies a position above, and thus scopes over, the vP domain coordinate structure. We then show that our structural ambiguity analysis correctly predicts that the distribution of the Gapping scope ambiguity interacts with seemingly independent syntactic properties, with the effect that only one or the other reading is available in certain syntactic contexts.
AB - In this paper, we argue that Gapping constructions like Jessie might order beans and Kerry rice are ambiguous between two structures: CP domain coordinate structures, and vP domain coordinate structures. Initial evidence for this structural ambiguity analysis comes from the scope ambiguity that such examples exhibit: scopal elements above the vP domain, such as the modal auxiliary might, can take wide scope above the coordinate structure, or distributive scope, under it. Scopal elements within the vP domain, like manner adverbs, take only distributive scope. This distribution follows directly from our two-source analysis: ambiguous scopal material is either contained within the CP sized conjuncts, yielding a distributive interpretation, or it occupies a position above, and thus scopes over, the vP domain coordinate structure. We then show that our structural ambiguity analysis correctly predicts that the distribution of the Gapping scope ambiguity interacts with seemingly independent syntactic properties, with the effect that only one or the other reading is available in certain syntactic contexts.
KW - Across-the-board movement
KW - Ellipsis
KW - Gapping
KW - Structural ambiguity
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U2 - 10.1007/s11049-017-9359-y
DO - 10.1007/s11049-017-9359-y
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85014115298
VL - 35
SP - 1123
EP - 1160
JO - Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
JF - Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
SN - 0167-806X
IS - 4
ER -