초록 열기/닫기 버튼
Fox and Lasnik (2003) propose a Parallelism condition as a licensing condition on ellipsis. The data it intends to cover, however, are also accounted for by MaxElide, which is independently proposed by Merchant (2008). Thus, one could argue that one subsumes the other (cf. Parker and Seely 2010) or attempt to unify these two constraints (cf. Takahashi and Fox 2005). However, this paper shows that these attempts are not promising, by demonstrating that the two constraints are independently operative and thus needed as licensing conditions on ellipsis. The arguments come from a certain contrast between VP-ellipsis and IP-ellipsis in various ellipsis environments. This paper also shows that to capture the whole range of relevant data, the derivation involved in Pseudogapping must be posited (cf. Lasnik 1995, Johnson 2001).
