On Parasitic Gap Stuctures in English

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Yoon, Seok-Hwa. 1996. On Parasitic Gap Structures in English. Linguistics 4, 145-168. The purpose of this paper is to survey on parasitic gap structures with special reference to English, and to provide adequate accounts for the phenomena closely related to them, within the principles and parameters approach to the grammar of natural language. We assume that null operator structures involve predicational null operator structures and parasitic gap structures, but examine only parasitic gap structures. The assumption that a governed null operator is a variable seems to be specific to adjunct-internal PG structures. But if we do not put any restriction on the Bijection Principle, typical adjunct PG structures will violate it. Furthermore, there are some exceptional adjunct PG structures for which the Modified Strong Binding Condition is not applicable. (Wonkwang University)