The licensing of parasitic gaps

  1. García Mayo, María del Pilar
Zeitschrift:
Miscelánea: A journal of english and american studies

ISSN: 1137-6368

Datum der Publikation: 1995

Nummer: 16

Seiten: 125-140

Art: Artikel

Andere Publikationen in: Miscelánea: A journal of english and american studies

Zusammenfassung

One of the syntactic characteristics attributed to parasitic gaps in the literature is that they require the presence of an S-S variable. This licensing variable must not c-command the parasitic gap. In this paper I argue that an operator/variable pair is not the only essential environment allowing the licensing of parasitic gaps in Spanish at S-S contrary to what happens in English where only variables license these constructions. This paper adopts the theoretical assumptions of Government and Binding theory.