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TP-ellipsis with polarity particles exhibits island effects not only in cases of long-distance movement of the remnant but also when the remnant does not cross any island, showing that some non-overt element moves from the elided TP. Also in non-island contexts, TP-ellipsis with non-local antecedents is sensitive to finiteness. Correlating these properties I will argue that the null-T, the head of the elided TP, moves, for scope reasons, to the topmost sentence that relates the elliptical site to the sentence containing its antecedent. The resulting T-chains, which must preserve the finiteness value of each link, constitute a requirement for the identification of the elliptical-TP.
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TP-ellipsis Islands Finiteness Parataxis Parallelism T-chains
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Matos, Gabriela (2017) “TP Ellipsis with polarity particles”. In Lopes, Ruth E.V., Juanito O. Avelar & Sonia M. L. Cyrino (eds.) Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 12.143-158. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
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John Benjamins