Academic Scientific JournalsOn complementizers and embedded gapping in English, Spanish and Polish
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https://doi.org/10.26881/bp.2021.3.04Keywords:
syntax, ellipsis, gapping, complementizers, coordinationAbstract
This paper examines two sequences which display gapping under two different embedding configurations in English, Spanish and Polish. I claim that the different distribution of the finite complementizer in these configurations and across these three languages provides further evidence for the idea that gapping is not a uniform phenomenon, and that different structures may correlate with different heights at which coordination can take place in gapping.
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