Speaker: Marc Authier (Penn State University)
\nTitle: PF-deletion, Topicalization and French modal Ellipsis
\nTime: Thursday, March 10, 11am-12pm
\nLocation: 32-D461<\/p>\n
This paper shows that the hypothesis briefly discussed in Busquets and
\nDenis (2001) that French displays both PF-deletion and pro-form ellipsis of
\nsentential complements with different classes of verbs is indeed correct. It
\nsubsequently focuses on the PF-deletion type (i.e., modal ellipsis) and
\nargues that like English VP ellipsis, this type of ellipsis should be
\nsyntactically derived by way of movement and that French elided TPs stand
\nin a topic position. The syntactic chain thus created by Move is composed of
\ntwo links: the first merge copy, which is always silent, as is the case with
\nmost types of movement, and the remerge copy, which also remains silent,
\nbeing recoverable from the discourse, but sometimes allows phrasal
\nsubparts to undergo further A?-movement to Spec, FocP, a position where
\nthey are fully spelled-out at PF. The absence of intervention as well as
\nfreezing effects associated with the latter movement are then explained using
\nthe rescue by PF deletion account developed in Bo?kovi? (2011). This
\nnovel theory of French modal ellipsis is shown to correctly predict the
\nexistence of what Busquets and Denis (2001) named French Pseudo-
\nGapping, as well as the much more restricted distribution of modal ellipsis
\nin untensed contexts. It also provides a partial answer to why French does
\nnot have VP ellipsis and why English does not have modal ellipsis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaker: Marc Authier (Penn State University) Title: PF-deletion, Topicalization and French modal Ellipsis Time: Thursday, March 10, 11am-12pm Location: 32-D461 This paper shows that the hypothesis briefly discussed in Busquets and Denis (2001) that French displays both PF-deletion and pro-form ellipsis of sentential complements with different classes of verbs is indeed correct. It subsequently focuses […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2325,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions\/2325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}