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David Pesetsky

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linguist also violinist & violist (for fun)

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Ingredients of Ellipsis: Silent Head, Silence Extended, and the Uniformity of Silence - lingbuzz/008647 This paper presents a new general proposal concerning the syntax of ellipsis. We argue that phrasal ellipsis is always preceded by, and depends on, some independent process that silences the head of t...

New version just posted: ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/008...

19.06.2025 16:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I assume this is an ancient post about the 2018 ICL — from Twitter? The answer: I was very much looking forward to attending and speaking. But shortly before the Congress, my father had a sudden stroke, and my mother had emergency cancer surgery. (Both have since died.) I just could not get away

23.02.2025 00:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Ingredients of Ellipsis: Silent Head, Silence Extended, and the Uniformity of Silence - lingbuzz/008647 This paper presents a new general proposal concerning the syntax of ellipsis. We argue that phrasal ellipsis is always preceded by, and depends on, some independent process that silences the head of t...

Ido Benbaji -Elhadad and I have a draft of a new paper about the syntax of ellipsis — just finished and just posted to LingBuzz. Comments very much welcome.

ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/008...

06.12.2024 13:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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