This paper examines the behavior of English negative indefinites under VP ellipsis. The main empirical observation is that negative indefinites cannot take scope out of a verbal ellipsis site. We propose that negative indefinites involve fusion under adjacency between the clausal polarity head and an indefinite determiner and that this adjacency comes about under multidominance. Multidominance can feed the morphological coalescence of two syntactic terminals that on the surface do not appear to be linearly adjacent. The claim that there is a morphological relation between these two heads—rather than a syntactic one—is supported by the fact that it can be bled by ellipsis. Given that ellipsis is a process at Phonological Form (PF), it can block fusion, thus preventing high scope of negative indefinites out of an ellipsis site.

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如何（不）消除否定

本文考察了VP省略下英语否定不定词的行为。主要的经验观察结果是，负不定式不能将范围排除在语言省略位置之外。我们提出负不定式涉及子句极性头和不定确定器之间在邻接关系下的融合，并且这种邻接关系是在多重支配下实现的。多优势可以促进两个句法末端在形态上的合并，这两个末端在表面上似乎不是线性相邻的。声称这两个头之间存在形态关系，而不是句法上的关系，这一事实得到了支持，因为它可以省略号。鉴于省略号是音素形式（PF）的一个过程，它可以阻止融合，从而防止在省略号位置之外出现较大范围的负不定式。