Response particles and verbal identity

Journal of Uralic Linguistics, vol. 1, pp. 239–278

Abstract

Abstract This paper revisits theVerbal Identity Requirementon V-stranding ellipsis in Hungarian, and argues that verb movement out of an ellipsis site does not require the verb to be lexically identical to its antecedent in contexts where emphasis is on the polarity. By showing that lexical identity need not be satisfied in case V-stranding is accompanied by a response particle, we argue that whenever the response particle is missing the preference for identity is not triggered by ellipsis in this language, but is due to a pragmatic inference.

Authors 1

1. Anikó Lipták corresponding Aachen

   Leiden University

   Affiliation as printed

   Leiden University

   Leiden UniversityThe Netherlands