{"id":17487,"date":"2025-10-13T06:06:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T10:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/2025\/10\/13\/lf-reading-group-10-15-lorenzo-pinton-mit-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T06:06:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T10:06:00","slug":"lf-reading-group-10-15-lorenzo-pinton-mit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2025\/10\/13\/lf-reading-group-10-15-lorenzo-pinton-mit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"LF Reading Group 10\/15 - Lorenzo Pinton (MIT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Speaker: <\/strong> Lorenzo Pinton (MIT)<br class=\"\"><strong>Title: <\/strong>VP-ellipsis and parasitic gaps: observations on temporal modifiers and parallelism<br class=\"\"><strong>Time: <\/strong>Wednesday, October 15th, 1pm - 2pm<br class=\"\"><strong>Location: <\/strong>32-D461<br class=\"\"><br class=\"\"><strong>Abstract: <\/strong>As the title suggests, in this LFRG I present ongoing work on PV-ellipsis and Parasitic Gaps. I discuss novel data involving parasitic gaps (henceforth PGs) in VP-ellipsis constructions. In particular, I present a series of minimal pairs and claim that the grammatical contrasts are mainly accounted for by the combination of a local parallelism condition on ellipsis in the style Takahashi and Fox (2005)\/Fox and Katzir (2011), and Nissenbaum\u0092s (1998; 2000) theory of PGs. First, the contrast between (1a) and (1b) is introduced to show that adjuncts with a PG cannot appear in the clause containing ellipsis, in contrast with adjuncts with no gap:<\/p>\n<p>(1) a. *This is the song that John listened to,<br clear='none'\/>\n and this is the song that Mary did [listen to] after reading about.<br clear='none'\/>\nb. This is the song that John listened to,<br clear='none'\/>\nand this is the song that Mary did [listen to] after having a coffee .<\/p>\n<p>More data in (2) show that there are actually instances in which a PG-adjunct can appear in the elided clause, but only if another PG-adjunct is present in the antecedent:<\/p>\n<p>(2) a. This is the song that Rosa listened to after reading about,<br clear='none'\/>\nand this is the song that Karl did [listen to] before hearing about.<br clear='none'\/>\nb. *This is the song that Rosa listened to after turning on the radio,<br clear='none'\/>\n and this is the song that Karl did [listen to] before hearing about .<\/p>\n<p>A third - semantic - constrast will also be introduced tin the talk. After considering observations from Hartman (2011) on the size of elided phrases, I will show the need for a silent element that merges in the same position as adjuncts that do not contain a PG. This need can be implemented either with a tense restrictor analysis of temporal modifiers (as for example presented in von Fintel and Heim (2011)) or with a silent pronominal version of temporal adjuncts, as long as this is restricted to non-PG adjuncts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Lorenzo Pinton (MIT)Title: VP-ellipsis and parasitic gaps: observations on temporal modifiers and parallelismTime: Wednesday, October 15th, 1pm - 2pmLocation: 32-D461Abstract: As the title suggests, in this LFRG I present ongoing work on PV-ellipsis and Parasitic Gaps. I discuss novel data involving parasitic gaps (henceforth PGs) in VP-ellipsis constructions. In particular, I present a series [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}