Kim, Rhanghyeyun. 2017. Some Arguments for the In-Situ Remnants. Studies in Generative Grammar, 27-3, 535-564. The figurative reading of idioms disappears if any part of the idioms is fronted. Similarly, fronting eliminates the resultative reading from the lo-phrase constructions. This paper examines various types of fragmentation and right dislocation (RD), focusing on whether they behave like fronting or not, i.e., whether they remove the figurative meaning and/or the resultative reading from the relevant constructions. The data indicate that no movement is involved in deriving fragments and gapless RD constructions, while gapped RD constructions are derived from movement. Given this in-situ hypothesis, the island-sensitivity of ‘contrastive’ fragments and ‘specificational’ gapless RD constructions can be captured by revising Abe’s (2016) deletion rule, reflecting the idea of contrastivity and pied-piping of Griffiths & Lipták (2014) along the line of Krifka (2006): Delete up to [Focus] and [pied piped Contrastive Focus]. The revised deletion rule might be extended to adjunct RD, which is another case of the island-sensitivity without movement.
1. Introduction
2. Some Distinctive Properties of Fragments
3. Toward the In-situ Fragment Approach
4. On Right-Dislocation
5. Conclusion
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