Open AccessRevisiting rebinding: an alternative to MaxElide
Author(s) -
James Griffiths
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
nordlyd
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1503-8599
pISSN - 0332-7531
DOI - 10.7557/12.4193
Subject(s) - ellipsis (linguistics) , constraint (computer aided design) , reflexivity , parallelism (grammar) , alternation (linguistics) , linguistics , computer science , epistemology , reduction (mathematics) , distribution (mathematics) , mathematics , mathematical economics , sociology , artificial intelligence , philosophy , social science , mathematical analysis , geometry
Using Takahashi & Fox (2005) as an exemplar, this paper argues that analyses of English ellipsis that make recourse to a MaxElide constraint (or a theoretical reduction thereof) are misguided, and that one must look past MaxElide to explain the distribution of acceptability in the elliptical rebinding constructions that MaxElide was originally invoked to explain. A novel analysis is outlined which attributes the unacceptability observed in the rebinding dataset to an inability to satisfy a more restrictive, reflexive version of Takahashi & Fox's (ibid.) Parallelism condition on ellipsis recoverability.