The syntax-discourse divide

Lyn Frazier (Université de Amherst)
The syntax-discourse divide

This lecture will focus on the approach Frazier and Clifton have taken to mismatch ellipsis, where an antecedent does not match the ellipsis site syntactically. Their approach entails that mismatch ellipsis is ungrammatical but at times acceptable. Much of the lecture will be devoted to showing that the assumption that technically ungrammatical sentences can be acceptable under certain circumstances is required generally, not just for ellipsis.