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Book: Linguistic Derivations and Filtering

Chapter: 3. Filling in the gaps: PF-optimalization in parasitic gap constructions in Dutch and German

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.24811

Blurb:

This chapter discusses a number of restrictions on the licensing of parasitic gaps that are problematic in a purely derivational framework like MP but which fall out quite naturally under the hybrid approach by adding a single constraint to the inventory proposed by Broekhuis.

Chapter Contributors

  • Gena Chocano (gema.chocano@uam.es - gchocano) 'Universidad Autonoma de Madrid'
  • Michael Putnam (mtp12@psu.edu - mputnam) 'Penn State University'