Hypothesis: intermediate wh-agreement values features of Probe, but not of Goal. . . . pära [VP umauWH-muv siha guätu [uOp Manu na isla ]] Probe Goal Possible Extensions Gapping Frank gave cake to the boys, and Mary gave cookies to the girls. Hypothesis: elements leftover in gapping share contrastive focus feature f. involves Transfer of FinP to LF, while Spell-Out of CP is shunted (i.e. “thrown away”). Transfer of FocP licenses remaining material. a. Transfer FinP, not including XPf in linearization: but elide at PF b. The active, unlinearized remnant, visible to Focf: c. Merge and Transfer FocusP: VP Remnant Movement So far we have assumed phase heads license and linearize with their leaving unlicensed elements inside unlinearized: Possibility: an inversion of this, in which a phase head licenses something its complement, but not its complement as a whole: I.e. a form of Distributed Spell Out. Consider German VP-fronting, leaving material not known to scramble:
Hypothesis: intermediate wh-agreement values features of Probe, but not of Goal. . . . pära [VP umauWH-muv siha guätu [uOp Manu na isla ]] Probe Goal Possible Extensions Gapping Frank gave cake to the boys, and Mary gave cookies to the girls. Hypothesis: elements leftover in gapping share contrastive focus feature f. involves Transfer of FinP to LF, while Spell-Out of CP is shunted (i.e. “thrown away”). Transfer of FocP licenses remaining material. a. Transfer FinP, not including XPf in linearization: but elide at PF b. The active, unlinearized remnant, visible to Focf: c. Merge and Transfer FocusP: VP Remnant Movement So far we have assumed phase heads license and linearize with their leaving unlicensed elements inside unlinearized: Possibility: an inversion of this, in which a phase head licenses something its complement, but not its complement as a whole: I.e. a form of Distributed Spell Out. Consider German VP-fronting, leaving material not known to scramble:
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