Gapping is not only low coordination

This squib is concerned with the validity of an approach to Gapping that exploits low coordination and ATB-movement (Johnson 2009). In this squib, I show that low coordination combined with ATB-movement has the following problems: (1) ATB-movement is not compatible with the Copy theory of Movement;...

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Main Author: Aleksandr Kalinin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2020-05-01
Series:Glossa
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Online Access:https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/1044
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spelling doaj-38946f902bf346b3948d76194fe7b2e12021-09-02T14:47:50ZengOpen Library of HumanitiesGlossa2397-18352020-05-015110.5334/gjgl.1044495Gapping is not only low coordinationAleksandr Kalinin0Queen Mary University of LondonThis squib is concerned with the validity of an approach to Gapping that exploits low coordination and ATB-movement (Johnson 2009). In this squib, I show that low coordination combined with ATB-movement has the following problems: (1) ATB-movement is not compatible with the Copy theory of Movement; (2) there is no universal correlation between partial vP/VP-topicalization and Gapping; (3) Gapping is possible in CP coordination, violating the low coordination requirement.https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/1044gappinglow coordinationatb movementellipsiscopy theoryidentity requirement
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Gapping is not only low coordination
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title Gapping is not only low coordination
title_short Gapping is not only low coordination
title_full Gapping is not only low coordination
title_fullStr Gapping is not only low coordination
title_full_unstemmed Gapping is not only low coordination
title_sort gapping is not only low coordination
publisher Open Library of Humanities
series Glossa
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publishDate 2020-05-01
description This squib is concerned with the validity of an approach to Gapping that exploits low coordination and ATB-movement (Johnson 2009). In this squib, I show that low coordination combined with ATB-movement has the following problems: (1) ATB-movement is not compatible with the Copy theory of Movement; (2) there is no universal correlation between partial vP/VP-topicalization and Gapping; (3) Gapping is possible in CP coordination, violating the low coordination requirement.
topic gapping
low coordination
atb movement
ellipsis
copy theory
identity requirement
url https://www.glossa-journal.org/articles/1044
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