Coordination and sharing at the interfaces

This thesis examines properties of a type of coordinate structure that involves shared material (i.e., elements above the point coordination that c-command all of the conjuncts), what is referred to as a sharing structure. Following the work of Johnson 1996, sharing structures are argued to exist using scope and binding facts in Gapping contexts. The role that sharing structures play in a wide variety of syntactic phenomena is then investigated. A new theory of Gapping is proposed, in which sharing structures (or Small-Conjunct structures, as they are traditionally referred to within the context of Gapping) play a central role. It is claimed that Gapping is a deletion operation which must be triggered by a specific syntactic environment - namely, a sharing structure with particular morpho-syntactic features. Sharing structures are then used to investigate the relationship between the Coordinate Structure Constraint (CSC) and A-movement. Novel evidence is presented which reveal that A-movement exhibits CSC effects.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2002

Author dc:creator

• Lin, Vivian I-Wen, 1972-

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• David Pesetsky.

• Linguistics and Philosophy.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/8151
• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

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http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/8151

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