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Anaphoric One and NP‐Ellipsis
Author(s) -
LlombartHuesca Amàlia
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
studia linguistica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.187
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 1467-9582
pISSN - 0039-3193
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9582.00087
Subject(s) - ellipsis (linguistics) , computer science , morpheme , linguistics , license , projection (relational algebra) , noun , head (geology) , arithmetic , artificial intelligence , mathematics , philosophy , algorithm , geomorphology , geology , operating system
Traditional accounts take anaphoric one to be a pro‐form appearing instead of a full noun (Jackendoff 1977, Ross 1967, and Hornstein & Lightfoot 1981, among others). I propose that one is a phonological support for the number morpheme in the DP, which is inserted in cases of NP‐ellipsis in the head of the Number projection when the conditions that would enable to license an empty Num° are not available. I also argue that the conditions currently assumed to license non‐referential empty categories in the NP‐ellipsis construction can be reduced to conditions licensing empty functional heads in the DP system.