On ineffable predicates: bilingual Greek–English code-switching under ellipsis

• Jason Merchant ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Chicago

     University of Chicago

     City of Chicago, Estados Unidos

     
• Localización: Lingua: International review of general linguistics, ISSN 0024-3841, Nº 166, 2, 2015, págs. 199-213
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In Greek–English code-switching contexts, Greek verb phrases can antecede apparent verb phrase ellipsis after English auxiliaries, even when a non-elliptical code-switched continuation with a Greek verb would not be well-formed. These facts, together with others from the previous literature, are compatible with a theory of ellipsis that posits an identity relation stated over abstract syntactic structures: mere semantic identity is too generous and fails to block sentences which are judged unacceptable