Nominal ellipsis as a collaborative effort

Following fundamental minimalist assumptions, this study aims to explain the distribution of nominal ellipsis (NE, henceforth) in Spanish as the result of last resort constraints at different components of the grammar. The current proposal is that NE in Spanish is a special case of trace deletion th...

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Main Author: Emma Ticio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2016-12-01
Series:Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics
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Online Access:https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/borealis/article/view/3130