The syntax of silence : sluicing, islands, and the theory of ellipsis

By J. Merchant. 2001

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Syntactic Identity in Sluicing: How Much and Why (2013, methodology): “Morphological mismatches of this sort led Merchant (2001) to claim that there is no syntactic identity condition on sluicing.”
Wholesale Late Merger: Beyond the A/ Distinction (2009, unknown): “23 Here, we state the Parallelism Condition as (60) (see Fox 1999a and Merchant 2001, 2007 for related proposals).”
Being progressive is just a phase: celebrating the uniqueness of progressive aspect under a phase-based analysis (2015, background): “I follow numerous authors (Ross 1969; Chomsky 1972; Sag 1976; Tancredi 1992; Chomsky and Lasnik 1993; Lasnik 1995a, 1999, 2001b; Merchant 2001, 2004; Aelbrecht 2010) in assuming that ellipsis phenomena such as VPE are deletion of syntactic structures at PF.”
Rescue by PF Deletion, Traces as (Non)interveners, and the That-Trace Effect (2011, background): “…clause, with that undergoing deletion, we then may have an account of the ungrammaticality of this construction.37 Finally, returning to the amelioration effect of PF deletion, note that Perlmutter (1971) and Merchant (2001) observe that that-trace violations can also be rescued by ellipsis.”
The functions of silence (2008, background): “On a purely syntactic level, islands and ellipses are cases of eloquent silence (Pesetsky, 1995; Lappin, 1999; Merchant, 2001).”
Meaningful silence, meaningless sounds. (2004, unknown): “For a recent, very relevant study of silence in language, see Merchant (2001).”
Ellipsis Sites as Definite Descriptions (2008, background): “…according to which an elided phrase requires a linguistic antecedent (Hankamer and Sag 1976) and the relationship between elided phrase and antecedent is one of identity of meaning (Grinder and Postal 1971, Merchant 2001) or Logical Form (Sag 1976, Williams 1977, and many subsequent works).”
Perspective in Taste Predicates and Epistemic Modals (2011, background): “33 For a sustained discussion of sluicing and ellipsis see Merchant (2001).”
Articulated Definiteness without Articles (2018, background): “Because ellipsis generally requires previous mention of the elided material in order to be licensed (Hankamer and Sag 1976, Merchant 2001), the formal link requirement falls out naturally if pronouns are D heads with a deleted NP complement.”
On the syntactically complex status of negative indefinites (2011, background): “(49) (50) Given that deletion may only take place under semantic identity (cf. Merchant 2001) it is strange that the deleted VP in the second clause does not contain a negation.”
The Genesis of Negative Concord: Syntax and Morphology of Negative Doubling (2004, background): “My results reinforce the position argued for by Merchant (2001), according to which ellipsis involves PF deletion and requires a semantic, not syntactic, identity condition.”