Abstract
Fiengo and May (1994) argue that what they call "vehicle change," which permits copies of names to be evaluated as pronouns with respect to interpretive principles, plays a key role in accounting for reconstruction effects in ellipsis environments. It is argued here that the alleviation of Principle C violations ("antireconstruction effects"), where it occurs in Ā-chains, is due not to deletion of the lower copy, as in Chomsky 1995, but to vehicle change. The introduction of vehicle change into the theory of Ā-chains is independently motivated as essential to capturing a robust adjunct/nonadjunct distinction in the reconstruction of pronoun-as-bound-variable readings that has not been discussed up to now; at the same time it predicts the class of "weakest crossover" environments.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 587-620 |
Number of pages | 34 |
Journal | Linguistic Inquiry |
Volume | 30 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1999 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Language and Linguistics
- Linguistics and Language
Keywords
- Crossover
- Reconstruction
- Resumption
- Vehicle change