Constraints on pseudogapping constructions with do (original) (raw)

2007

Abstract

Constraints on pseudogapping constructions with doThis paper is part of a wider research project into the ways in which do functions in a variety of anaphoric structures, and the interaction between its particular semantics and its anaphoric potential. Here we focus on a subset of structures involving what generative syntacticians have named “pseudogapping” (cf. Levin 1986). The structures we are interested in are clauses in which a form of the verb do – sometimes in combination with an auxiliary – stands for a lexical verb in a preceding clause, as in:(1) PeopleinGreecedrinkmoreouzothantheydobrandy.(Levin1986:16)The constituent to the right of do, usually called a “remnant” (e.g. Lasnik 1999), semantically contrasts with a constituent in the antecedent clause.Linguists have very different acceptability judgements with respect to pseudogapping constructions (see Lasnik 1999: 152-53). The only way to circumvent this difficulty is to rely on corpus data. We have started searching the ...

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