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This paper examines Appositive Antecedent Containment (AACD) construction, in which VP-ellipsis appears within an appositive relative clause, and argues that Parallelism plays a role in accounting for AACD (cf. Fiengo and May 1994, Fox and Lasnik 2003). However, contra the standard assumption, the paper proposes to modify Parallelism in such a way that it needs to be satisfied more locally. More accurately, it argues that ellipsis is licensed only up to the point that satisfies Parallelism. In some cases, the modified Parallelism has effects of licensing ellipsis, which would not be permitted by the standard Parallelism. The proposed analysis also provides an account for the typical ACD construction, where VP ellipsis appears in a restrictive relative clause.


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VP ellipsis, Antecedent Contained Deletion, appositive relative clause, Parallelism, Successive cyclic movement, focus, Sluicing