| dc.contributor.author |
Mikkelsen, Line |
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| dc.contributor.author |
Hardt, Daniel |
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| dc.contributor.author |
Ørsnes, Bjarne |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2011-11-16 |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2012-08-06T11:20:39Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2012-08-06T11:20:39Z |
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| dc.date.issued |
2012-08-06 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8469 |
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| dc.description.abstract |
Overt VP anaphors like do so, do it and do the same can host a following PP (Culicover & Jackendoff
(2005:285–6), Huddleston & Pullum (2002:1533), Miller (2011:5–6), Sobin (2008:150, 155–157)):
(1) The House is set to take up the final version of the funding bill tomorrow. The Senate will do
the same on Thursday. [COCA]
(2) You have jilted two previous fiances and I expect you would do the same to me. [COCA]
Using (1) to fix terminology, the ANAPHOR is do the same, the ANTECEDENT is take up the final version
of the funding bill, the ORPHAN is on Tuesday, and the CORRELATE is tomorrow. Examples like (2) are of
particular interest because the correlate (two previous fiances) is inside the antecedent and, consequently,
the orphan and the antecedent must interact to produce the interpretation of the clause containing the
anaphor. In order to arrive at the interpretation ‘you would jilt me’, the me of the orphan must take the
place of two previous fiances inside the antecedent VP.
A superficially similar situation arises with remnants of ellipsis, including pseudogapping (3),
sluicing (4), and fragment answers (5). In each case, the interpretation of the ellipsis clause combines
part of the antecedent with all or part of the remnant.
(3) I wouldn’t say that to my mother, but I would to you.
(4) I know he gave the dresser away, but I don’t know to who.
(5) Q: Who did he give the dresser to?
A: To me. |
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| dc.format.extent |
9 |
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| dc.language |
eng |
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| dc.title |
Orphans hosted by VP anaphora |
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| dc.type |
cp |
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| dc.accessionstatus |
modt12aug06 anmn |
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| dc.contributor.corporation |
Copenhagen Business School. CBS |
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| dc.contributor.department |
Institut for IT-Ledelse |
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| dc.contributor.departmentshort |
ITM |
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| dc.contributor.departmentuk |
Department of IT Management |
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| dc.contributor.departmentukshort |
ITM |
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| dc.description.notes |
Paper presented at The 29th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 2011, apr. 22.-24., Tucson, USA |
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| dc.idnumber |
x656316682 |
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| dc.publisher.city |
Frederiksberg |
en_US |
| dc.publisher.year |
2011 |
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