2006/10/01 by Jeroen van Craenenbroeck, Jeroen Van Craenenbroeck, Marcel den Dikken · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · #Historical Linguistics and Language Studies #Linguistics and Discourse Analysis #Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
paper · doi:10.1162/ling.2006.37.4.653
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The article discusses ellipsis constructions in the English language. The author examines a hypothesis proposed by linguist Jason Merchant about situations in which a subject can be suspended in an elliptical statement with the Extended Projection Principle. After going over the hypothesis, he then presents linguists Howard Lasnik and Myung-Kwan Park's critique of Merchant. He argues that their critique is unfounded. Finally he offers three arguments that support and expand upon Merchant's hypothesis.