DELETION BY PHASE AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO NON-CONSTITUENT DELETION

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to seek theoretical and empirical consequences stemming from Chomsky’s (2000) Cyclic Spell-Out. As a consequence of (Deletion by Phase Hypothesis, DBPH ), and argue that the DBPH makes it possible to derive non-constituent deletion without appealing to movement feeding constituent deletion. As a case study, this paper mainly deals with Gapping.