Notes on Fragments in English & Korean
Hee-Don Ahn, 조성은 · Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics · 2009
Fragments convey the same propositional content that their full sentential counterparts have. We claim that fragments in English and Korean should be analyzed as full-fledged sentential structures that undergo ellipsis at PF. We show that the Move+Delete analysis is superior to alternative left-dislocation or cleft analyses in both languages. A wide range of empirical evidence has been added to support the (syntactic) ellipsis analysis of fragments: Case connectivity, distribution of NPI, and various binding phenomena peculiar to fragments.