Orphans hosted by VP anaphora

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dc.contributor.author	Mikkelsen, Line
dc.contributor.author	Hardt, Daniel
dc.contributor.author	Ørsnes, Bjarne
dc.date.accessioned	2011-11-16
dc.date.accessioned	2012-08-06T11:20:39Z
dc.date.available	2012-08-06T11:20:39Z
dc.date.issued	2012-08-06
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8469
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.	en_US
dc.format.extent	9	en_US
dc.language	eng	en_US
dc.title	Orphans hosted by VP anaphora	en_US
dc.type	cp	en_US
dc.accessionstatus	modt12aug06 anmn	en_US
dc.contributor.corporation	Copenhagen Business School. CBS	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Institut for IT-Ledelse	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentshort	ITM	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentuk	Department of IT Management	en_US
dc.contributor.departmentukshort	ITM	en_US
dc.description.notes	Paper presented at The 29th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics 2011, apr. 22.-24., Tucson, USA	en_US
dc.idnumber	x656316682	en_US
dc.publisher.city	Frederiksberg	en_US
dc.publisher.year	2011	en_US