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Gapping Is Not (VP-) Ellipsis
- Linguistic Inquiry
- The MIT Press
- Volume 40, Number 2, Spring 2009
- pp. 289-328
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Pseudogapping is no misnomer. Despite their many tempting similarities, gapping and pseudogapping are distinct constructions. Pseudo-gapping is a special instance of VP-ellipsis, while gapping, I argue, is a special instance of across-the-board movement. Squeezing gapping into across-the-board movement has its own discomforts, however, which I suggest can be remedied by retailoring our syntax to include string-based output constraints. I sketch one such alteration that involves apparent Left Branch Condition violations.