Talk:Parasitic gap

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The first sentence could be better. I'm not sure what a parasitic gap is exactly so can't change it. dpen2000 10:46, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)


 * How about: `A parasitic gap is a gap that is dependent on another gap' as a first sentence? It's a paraphrase from Elisabet Engdahl's article `Parasitic Gaps' Linguistics and Philosophy 6, 1983 5-34.  Seems a fairly straightforward bit to include. Googlefish 00:39, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Does anyone have a source for Nissenbaum being Chomsky's student?


 * I did some looking around and found this link: http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/1721.1/8842/1/48567805.pdf .  It's a pdf of Nissenbaum's thesis.  The supervisors are N. Chomsky and D. Pesetsky.  This may indicate that Nissenbaum was indeed a student of Chomsky, though I'm not sure if this source is acceptable. Googlefish 01:02, 17 July 2007 (UTC)

Needs work
This page conflates several theories of pgs, some incorrectly. GPSG/HPSG treat pgs as ATB dependencies (using the SLASH feature or its equivalent), not as fronted null pronouns. Chomsky 82 may treat them this way, but Chomsky 86 (Barriers) doesn't: there it's a null op analysis. Nissenbaum also uses a null Op analysis if memory serves (to trigger lambda-abstraction), and has new exx of covert mvmt licensing pgs, very important. Anybody feel like incorporating these? If there are no takers, I may try myself. Mundart (talk) 08:18, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Removed the passive example
The passive example actually violated the EPP (sentences need subjects), but passives are not infact bad:

1) The document was filed without being read 2) Which document was filed without being read

The Spanish equivalent of the original passive (~ the document was filed without reading / which document was filed without reading) is fine because in Spanish it doesn't violate the EPP due to Spanish having null subjects.

Augur (talk) 21:06, 4 November 2009 (UTC)

Wrong and misleading counter example
*Which book did she review War and Peace without reading __.

This sentence is ungrammatical for independent reasons. A better example would be:

She reviewed War and Peace without reading ___.

I changed it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Raban (talk • contribs) 15:12, 19 April 2012 (UTC)

Editing
Hello, I am a student at the University of British Columbia and am enrolled in a syntax course in which our assignment is to help to edit a Wikipedia page. I have been doing research over the course of the past month on parasitic gaps and hope to help improve the page. Please do not hesitate to let me know of any errors or discrepancies in the edits that I will be making.

Thank you, Kaitlyn — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kvandervelden (talk • contribs) 22:07, 18 December 2021 (UTC)