There is something missing in NP and moving in DP

Wesley Orth; Masaya Yoshida

doi:10.1007/s11049-023-09581-6

There is something missing in NP and moving in DP

Wesley Orth^*, Masaya Yoshida

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Linguistics

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Abstract

This study investigates a curious Adjective-Prepositional Phrase sequence (the A-PP string) found in coordination contexts. Investigations into the distribution of this A-PP string reveal that the A-PP string is possible only in coordination contexts and is restricted to cases where N undergoes across-the-board (ATB) movement. We point out that the distribution of the A-PP string is similar to that of Gapping observed in the verbal domain. Thus, we argue that the A-PP string is an instance of Gapping in the nominal domain, and that Gapping-like strings can be produced by an ATB-movement derivation. Based on this data from the nominal domain, we make an argument supporting the ATB-movement derivation of Gapping broadly. Furthermore, this study sheds new light on the nature of N-movement within DP in English. Previous studies have argued against N-movement in English. We demonstrate that the distribution of the A-PP string depends on the availability of ATB-N-movement. In other words, if N-movement is not available in English, we cannot capture the properties of the A-PP string. Thus, this study makes a new argument for N-movement within DP in English based on the distribution of the A-PP string.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1509-1527
Number of pages	19
Journal	Natural Language and Linguistic Theory
Volume	41
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11049-023-09581-6
State	Published - Nov 2023

Funding

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 2216989 - Doctoral Dissertation Research: Active assignment of quantifier scope guides language processing. We thank the reviewers and editors at NLLT for their careful review and helpful feedback in the preparation of this work. We also thank Brian Agbayani, Tomohiro Fujii, Ángel Gallego, Kyle Johnson, Howard Lasnik, Hajime Ono, Mamoru Saito, Koji Sugisaki, Kensuke Takita, Hidekazu Tanaka, and the members of the SSS-Lab at Northwestern University for their valuable comments and suggestions for earlier versions of this work.

Keywords

ATB-movement
DP
Gapping
NP
Syntax

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Language and Linguistics
Linguistics and Language

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