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The Korean Association for the Study of English Language and Linguistics
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Korea Journal of English Language and Linguistics - Vol. 18, No. 2, pp.157-172
ISSN: 1598-1398 (Print)
Print publication date 30 Jun 2018
Received 30 Apr 2018 Revised 08 Jun 2018 Accepted 18 Jun 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15738/kjell.18.2.201806.157

Locative PP Extraction out of VP-ellipsis

Sun-Woong Kim ; Jinhee Kim
Kwangwoon University Department of English 20 Kwangwoon-ro, Nowon-gu Seoul, Korea swkim@kw.ac.kr
Kwangwoon University Department of English 20 Kwangwoon-ro, Nowon-gu Seoul, Korea jinhee2447@hanmail.net

Abstract

Kim, Sun-Woong and Jinhee, Kim. 2018. Locative PP extraction out of VP-ellipsis. Korean Journal of English Language and Linguistics 18—2, 157-172. This paper is an attempt to explain the extraction possibility of locative PP out of VP-ellipsis site. In general, extraction out of VP-ellipsis is known to be possible. Both A-extraction and A'-extraction are of no problem out of VP-ellipsis site. However, extraction of a locative PP out of VP-ellipsis site is reportedly bad. Where comes the difference? To answer the question, this paper assumes the following theoretical apparatuses: Dynamic definition of phases and Elidability Condition. Contrary to the original definition of phases (Chomsky 2005), denDikken (2007) Bošković (2014) argue in common that phases must be defined contextually. On top of this, ellipsis is assumed to be done on the phase and its complement. Under these assumptions, the difference of LIC and PTC is discussed to boil down to the matter of elidability in terms of phase. Further related issues regarding affix bleeding and tense doubling are also discussed

Keywords:

locative inversion, presentational there, phase, VP ellipsis, extraction

Acknowledgments

We were greatly indebted to the discussion in the meetings of Dongguk Round Table on Linguistics in 2017. Special thanks go to the participants: Myung-Kwan Park, Gui-Sun Moon, Hye-Kyung Wee, and Jongun Park among others. This work has been inspired by Željko Bošković for his original ideas on phasehood and parametric variation in terms of NP/DP distinction and den Dikken for his theory of predication and phase extension. This paper was orally presented in SNU-ICL 2018, Seoul National University. The present research has been conducted by the Research Grant of Kwangwoon University in 2018 (of the first author)

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