Case mismatching in Icelandic clausal ellipsis
Jim Wood, Matthew Barros, Einar Sigurðsson
April 2019 

In this article, we take a detailed look at clausal ellipsis in Icelandic, a hitherto understudied phenomenon. We focus on case-matching and case-mismatching facts in fragment responses. We argue that although case-matching is the norm, constrained instances of case-mismatching strongly suggest that there must be silent structure in the ellipsis site, and some syntactic identity condition. We outline these patterns in detail, and provide an analysis that assumes a post-syntactic approach to case-marking, and a hybrid identity condition along the lines of Chung (2013).

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Reference:	lingbuzz/004157 (please use that when you cite this article)
Published in:	Journal of Linguistics (DOI: doi.org/10.1017/S0022226719000161)
keywords:	icelandic, ellipsis, fragments, sluicing, case, dative substitution, nominative substitution, morphology, syntax
previous versions:	v1 [August 2018]
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