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Ellipsis, Economy, and the (Non)uniformity of Traces
- Linguistic Inquiry
- The MIT Press
- Volume 47, Number 2, Spring 2016
- pp. 306-332
- Article
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A number of works have attempted to account for the interaction between movement and ellipsis in terms of an economy condition Max-Elide. We show that the elimination of MaxElide leads to an empirically superior account of these interactions. We show that a number of the core effects attributed to MaxElide can be accounted for with a parallelism condition on ellipsis. The remaining cases are then treated with a generalized economy condition that favors shorter derivations over longer ones. The resulting analysis has no need for the ellipsis-specific economy constraint MaxElide.