This paper presents a case study of verb phrase ellipses with adverbially modified antecedents. It is shown experimentally that there is a preference for resolving ellipses in certain embedded clauses with unmodified VPs. The effect is hypothesized to reflect a general requirement to minimize the complexity of accommodated content. Four experiments support this hypothesis over plausible candidate hypotheses, including syntactic approaches to the effect (Matsuo 2001; Sailor 2014).
University of Toronto Department of Linguistics Blog
September 29, 2019
New paper: Moulton (2019)
Keir Moulton (faculty) has a new paper in the Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 63(4): "Adverbs in VP ellipsis: An experimental investigation of antecedent selection."
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