Three Types of English Pseudogapping Constructions in Terms of Parallelism

Three types of English Pseudogapping Constructions in terms of Parallelism. Studies in Generative Grammar 30.3, 000-000. This paper aims to point out problems with the analyses which Park & Choi (2015a, b) proposed concerning grammaticality contrast phenomena in voice mismatch in English pseudogapping constructions and to present solutions to them. Several scholars have been researching the reasons for the phenomena, including Kehler’s (1995, 2000, 2002) theory of coherence relations, Jason Merchant’s (2008a, 2013) Voice Phrase mismatch, and Park & Choi’s (2015a, b) Case mismatch, etc. Park & Choi (ibid) are most convincing among all the works. Park & Choi (ibid), however, have empirical and conceptual shortcomings. I make the following three claims: (i) Park & Choi (ibid) argue that only vP undergoes ellipsis in parallel resemblance relations. However, VP undergoes ellipsis in the relations in which a floating quantifier all appears; (ii) Pseudogapping constructions in which cause-effect relations hold are non-parallel because they have a mismatch property between surface syntax and semantics; (iii) There are three types of parallelism in English pseudogapping construction; parallelism, a quasi non-parallelism, and a typical non-parallelism.