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Fragments, ellipsis, and PF-repair: New evidence from Indonesian

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Yosuke Sato
Yosuke Sato*
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National University of Singapore
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Extract

Merchant (2004) proposes that a fragmentary response like the one in (1b) to the question in (1a) is derived from its full-fledged sentential counterpart in (1c).

  1. (1) a. Who did she see?

  2. b. [DP John]

  3. c. [TPShe saw John] (Merchant 2004:673)

Type
Squibs/Notules
Information
Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 58 , Issue 3 , November 2013 , pp. 497 - 505
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 2013

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