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Linguistic Inquiry (2015) 46 (2): 273–303.
Published: 01 April 2015
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Greek voice and aspect jointly condition verbal stem allomorphy, including suppletion. Negation and tense in English do likewise. These cases show that stem allomorphy cannot be restricted to cases where the conditioning element is structurally adjacent to the element that displays allomorphic variation. But neither is contextual allomorphy entirely free from locality constraints: allomorphy can be conditioned only by a span , a contiguous set of heads in an extended projection.
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Linguistic Inquiry (2013) 44 (1): 77–108.
Published: 01 January 2013
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Elided VPs and their antecedent VPs can mismatch in voice, with passive VPs being elided under apparent identity with active antecedent VPs, and vice versa. Such voice mismatches are not allowed in any other kind of ellipsis, such as sluicing and other clausal ellipses. These latter facts appear to indicate that the identity relation in ellipsis is sensitive to syntactic form, not merely to semantic form. The VPellipsis facts fall into place if the head that determines voice is external to the phrase being elided, here argued to be vP; such an account can only be framed in approaches that allow syntactic features to be separated from the heads on which they are morphologically realized. Alternatives to this syntactic, articulated view of ellipsis and voice either undergenerate or overgenerate.
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Linguistic Inquiry (2008) 39 (1): 169–179.
Published: 01 January 2008
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Linguistic Inquiry (2000) 31 (3): 566–575.
Published: 01 July 2000