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Licensing Theory and French Parasitic Gaps

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  • © 1991

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Authors:
  1. Christine Tellier

    1. Département de linguistique et philologie, Université de Montréal, Canada

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Part of the book series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (SNLT, volume 26)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Theoretical Background

    • Christine Tellier
    Pages 1-24

  3. Universal Licensing

    • Christine Tellier
    Pages 25-78

  4. Double Dont Constructions

    • Christine Tellier
    Pages 79-127

  5. Null Operators in DPs

    • Christine Tellier
    Pages 128-174

  6. Locality in Double Dont Constructions

    • Christine Tellier
    Pages 175-196

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 197-216
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About this book

The study of parasitic gap constructions (e. g. these are the reports; which you corrected _; before filing _i) has been a very lively area of research over the last decade. The impetus behind this lies mostly in the margi­ nality of the construction. Clearly, the intuitions that native speakers have about parasitic gaps do not stem from direct instruction; hence, it is reasoned, such knowledge follows from the restrictions imposed by Universal Grammar. Furthermore, it is unlikely that any principle of Universal Grammar refers specifically to parasitic gap constructions; their syntactic and interpretive properties must instead follow entirely from independent principles. My own interest in the phenomenon was sparked a few years ago, when, in a novel, I came across a sentence like the following: Chait un armateur; dont Ie prestige _; reposait largement sur la fortune _;, 'he was a shipbuilder of whom the prestige was largely based on the wealth'. As the indices indicate, the interpretation of the French sentence is un­ ambiguous: both the prestige and the wealth necessarily pertain to the same individual. In this aspect, the sentence much resembles the English parasitic gap construction above: in the former case too, the comple­ ments of correct and file must corefer with the noun phrase heading the relative (the reports). Yet, there is an important difference between the two constructions. Verbs like correct and file subcategorize their com­ plements.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Département de linguistique et philologie, Université de Montréal, Canada

    Christine Tellier

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Licensing Theory and French Parasitic Gaps

  • Authors: Christine Tellier

  • Series Title: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3596-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Kluwer Academic Publishers 1991

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1311-3Published: 31 October 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1323-6Published: 31 October 1991

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-3596-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-4670

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0358

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 216

  • Topics: Syntax, Romance Languages, Grammar

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