Project

The VP ellipsis mysiery: a closer look at the restrictions on the distribution of VP ellipsis across languages.

Code
01P00113
Duration
01 October 2014 → 30 September 2016
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Language studies
    • Linguistics
    • Theory and methodology of linguistics
    • Other languages and literary studies
Keywords
comparative ellipsis syntax verb phrase
 
Project description

VP ellipsis (VPE) has a very restricted cross-linguistic distribution: it occurs in English, but several related languages, such as Dutch, German or French do not allow it. This has not received a satisfactory explanation in the generative literature, and by comparing languages with and without VPE, this research project seeks to answer the question of the distribution of VPE.