Island Repair, Non-Repair, and the Organization of the Grammar∗
Howard Lasnik · 2009
Abstract The phenomenon of island violation amelioration by ellipsis as in (1), first discovered by Ross (1969), has recently been the focus of much investigation, by Merchant (2001) and Lasnik (2001b), among many others. (1) Irv and someone were dancing together, but I don’t know who (∗Irv and were dancing together). [Coordinate Structure Constraint]