Mendes, G;
Nevins, A;
(2023)
When Ellipsis Can Save Defectiveness and When It Can’t.
Linguistic Inquiry
, 54
(1)
pp. 182-196.
10.1162/ling_a_00428.
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Abstract
We discuss cases of salvation and non-salvation by deletion in the domain of lexical gaps, and distinguish two types of defectiveness: (a) defectiveness that can be saved by PF deletion, which we take to signal the lack of an eligible allomorph for certain environments within a language, and (b) defectiveness that cannot be saved by PF deletion, which we take to signal the lack of a proper alloseme for a given environment. With ellipsis modeled as an instruction for nonpronunci-ation on the PF branch of the grammar, only gaps on the Exponent List can be saved by it.
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