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Case mismatching in Icelandic clausal ellipsis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 June 2019

JIM WOOD ,
MATTHEW BARROS  and
EINAR FREYR SIGURÐSSON
JIM WOOD*
Affiliation:
Yale University
MATTHEW BARROS*
Affiliation:
Washington University in St. Louis
EINAR FREYR SIGURÐSSON*
Affiliation:
The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
*
Author’s address: Yale University, 370 Temple St., New Haven, CT 06520, United Statesjim.wood@yale.edu
Author’s address: Washington University in St. Louis, 1 Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO, 63130, United Statesmatthew.barros@wustl.edu
Author’s address: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, Laugavegur 13, 101 Reykjavík, Icelandeinar.freyr.sigurdsson@arnastofnun.is
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Abstract

In this article, we take a detailed look at clausal ellipsis in Icelandic, a hitherto understudied phenomenon. We focus on case-matching and case-mismatching facts in fragment responses. We argue that although case matching is the norm, constrained instances of case mismatching strongly suggest that there must be silent structure in the ellipsis site, and some syntactic identity condition. We outline these patterns in detail, and provide an analysis that assumes a post-syntactic approach to case marking, and a hybrid identity condition along the lines of Chung (2013).

Keywords

caseellipsisfragmentsIcelandicidentity conditionsluicing
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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 56 , Issue 2 , 01 April 2020 , pp. 399 - 439
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Footnotes

We would like to thank the editors of JoL and the anonymous reviewers for valuable comments on this manuscript, which have helped us improve it in many ways. We would also like to thank the Icelandic speakers who have shared their judgments of many sentences with us, including Dagbjört Guðmundsdóttir, Elín þórsdóttir, Hlíf Árnadóttir, Iris Edda Nowenstein, Kristín Jóhannsdóttir, Lilja Björk Stefánsdóttir, and Sigríður Sæunn Sigurðardóttir. For discussion of the content of this paper, we thank Anna Szabolcsi, Jóhannes Gísli Jónsson, and the audience and reviewers of NELS 48 at the University of Iceland.

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