Linguistic Derivations and Filtering - Minimalism and Optimality Theory - Hans Broekhuis
3. Filling in the gaps: PF-optimalization in parasitic gap constructions in Dutch and German
Linguistic Derivations and Filtering - Minimalism and Optimality Theory - Hans Broekhuis
Gena Chocano [+]
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Departamento de Filologia Inglesa
Michael Putnam [+]
Penn State University
Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Description
This chapter discusses a number of restrictions on the licensing of parasitic gaps that are problematic in a purely derivational framework like MP but which fall out quite naturally under the hybrid approach by adding a single constraint to the inventory proposed by Broekhuis.