Code
01P00113
Duration
01 October 2014 → 30 September 2016
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Promotor
Fellow
Research disciplines
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Humanities
- 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.