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Abstract | References | Full Text: HTML, PDF (Size: 709K) | Related Articles | Citation Tracking  Constraints on Partial VP-fronting This paper is a "sequel" to Landau 2006, although it can be read independently. For very valuable comments on earlier drafts, I thank Jonathan Bobaljik, Jason Merchant, and Winfried Lechner, as well as the audience in the Workshop on Semitic Syntax at GLOW 28, Geneva. All remaining errors are my own. Copyright 2007 The Author Journal compilation 2007 Blackwell Publishing Ltd ABSTRACTAbstract. Partial VP-fronting, in which a verb is fronted with one argument, stranding the other one, is subject to a curious restriction in both Hebrew and English: The fronted VP-portion must be a potential independent VP in the language. It is shown that both incremental merger and remnant VP-fronting cannot explain the restriction, whereas an analysis incorporating late adjunction of the stranded argument can. Late adjunction, in turn, cannot apply too deeply, which explains why the same set of environments inaccessible to partial VP-fronting force adjunct reconstruction. The analysis implies that not only Spell-Out, but also interpretive constraints, like the θ-Criterion, apply at the phase level. Furthermore, Condition A is shown to be another such constraint. | 
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