The licensing of parasitic gaps

• Autores: María del Pilar García Mayo
• Localización: Miscelánea: A journal of english and american studies, ISSN 1137-6368, Nº 16, 1995, págs. 125-140
• Idioma: español
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• Resumen

  • One of the syntactic characteristics attributed to parasitic gaps in the literature is that they require the presence of an S-S variable. This licensing variable must not c-command the parasitic gap. In this paper I argue that an operator/variable pair is not the only essential environment allowing the licensing of parasitic gaps in Spanish at S-S contrary to what happens in English where only variables license these constructions. This paper adopts the theoretical assumptions of Government and Binding theory.