Movement and deletion after syntax: Licensing by inflection reconsidered
Andrés L. Saab, Anikó Lipták · Studia Linguistica · 2015
Abstract In this paper we study the interaction between ellipsis and inflectional morphology and put forward a generalization about ellipsis blocking the application of some morphological operations. Working in the Distributed Morphology framework, we will demonstrate this generalization in the realm ofNPellipsis. We will show thatNPellipsis can lead to stranded affix filter violations, and that there are various strategies languages can resort to in order to resolve problems of convergence that stranded affixes cause at thePFinterface. The resolution of the stranded affix filter configuration is responsible for the well‐known observation that heads precedingNPellipsis sites need to show overt inflection in languages that inflect these heads (Lobeck 1995).