Wholesale Late Merger: Beyond the A/A[over-bar] Distinction
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Takahashi, Shoichi
Hulsey, Sarah
Alternative Title
Wholesale Late Merger: Beyond the A/Ā Distinction
Date Issued
July 2009
Journal
Linguistic Inquiry
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MIT Press
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Takahashi, Shoichi and Sarah Hulsey. "Wholesale Late Merger: Beyond the A/Ā Distinction." Linguistic Inquiry, 40.3, Summer 2009. © 2009 The MIT Press.
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Abstract
In this article, we develop a substantially expanded theory of late merger. Adopting related insights by Fox (2002), we argue that late merger is permitted whenever an output representation can be interpreted in the semantic component. A consequence of our approach is that late merger is available not only for the well-known case of adjuncts, but also for restrictors of determiners (wholesale late merger). We demonstrate that this theory can explain the different reconstruction possibilities of A-movement and A-movement, as well as various otherwise puzzling facts about movement and ellipsis, while still maintaining the copy theory of movement.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
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