동사탈락구문에서의 핵 운용 연구

A Study on Head Operations in Verb Ellipsis Constructions

This study is a comprehensive critique of PF head movement in verb elliptical constructions, most advocated in recent minimalist studies, most notably Lasnik (1995, 1999) and Boeckx & Stjepanovic' (2001), and aims at arguing for the sideward copy movement of the verb, proposed by Agbayani & Zoerner (2004). The basic data for this study are about Gapping, Pseudogapping, and Verb Phrases Ellipsis (VPE) constructions that can cross a sentence boundary. Lasnik argues that there are two possibilities for a convergent derivation; either the head can raise, presumably checking the relevant strong features, or the category contained the head can be deleted as a PF repair strategy. But this account may cause a severe problem of "look ahead" operations, based on one of the global Economy Principles, Procrastinate, which could not be tenable anymore. Boeckx & Stjepanovic' (2001) also claim to have evidence from the analysis of Pseudogapping that head movement is best viewed as occurring, not in the overt syntax, but in the PF component. They assume that the trigger of PF head movement is not featural, but may well be morphological, or prosodic, or as a mixture of the two. However, this analysis might immediately arise a question of what triggers ellipsis, when verb raising and ellipsis compete in PF. Agbayani & Zoerner (2004) argue that Gapping and Pseudogapping involve the application of verb movement, in particular the sideward movement of the verb, proposed by Nunes (2001) and Nunes & Uriagereka (2001) for the possibility of sideward movement out of coordinate structures and adjunct clause. They present persuasive evidence that Pseudogapping and VPE are fundamentally unrelated transformationally, but Gapping and Pseudogapping share verb movement across the board. This sideward movement analysis is most meaningful to seek simplicity in Grammar. This paper puts focus on attesting an overt syntactic approach to head movements in elliptical constructions, following Agbayni & Zorner (2004)'s sideward copy movement.