Spanish modal ellipsis is not null complement anaphora
| Autor: | Fernández-Sánchez Javier |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Zdroj: | Linguistics, Vol 61, Iss 4, Pp 885-913 (2023) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0024-3949 1613-396X |
| DOI: | 10.1515/ling-2021-0077 |
| Popis: | Modal verbs are well-known to license ellipsis of their complements under certain conditions. In the literature on Spanish, such sequences, which I refer to as Modal Ellipsis (ME), have been traditionally argued to involve a null pronoun. These analyses therefore treat ME simply as an instance of Null Complement Anaphora (NCA). In this article, I scrutinize the data adduced in the literature on Spanish and defend that (i) ME in this language is different from NCA, and (ii) ME must involve PF-deletion of a TP node. Even though these claims are not new, I provide novel data in an attempt to clarify some of the controversial facts and claims that exist in the Spanish literature. In doing so, I strengthen the recent view of ME as a PF-deletion phenomenon. |
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