earticle

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In Spanish, DP headed by the definite article can undergo nominal ellipsis if the preposition DE (of) introduces the remnant element like ‘N + de + N’. It seems that the possibility of having nominal ellipsis is related to the null subject parameter (Torrego, 1987). Torrego supposed that the definite article in Spanish is able to retain the person, number and gender features necessary to license (via government) an NP pro. But this type of approach cannot explain restrictions on NP-ellipsis, since that ellipsis leads to ungrammaticality when some other prepositions are involved. The purpose of this paper is to examine the properties of the constructions ‘N + de + N’ with the definite article. It is supposed that the definite article, in Medieval Spanish, induces the movement of the element nominal to the Specifier, whereas, in Modern Spanish, it isn't possible. (Chonbuk National University)