Rara #82

Legacy number: 82

 Number  82
 Phenomenon  parasitic gaps (rather than an overt resumptive pronouns), licensed in main clauses if and only if a coreferential NP in a topicalized, fronted subordinate clause has been moved ahead of the clause-initial complementizer
 Found in  Bavarian, West Flemish (Germanic, IE), Polish (Slavonic, IE) (?), Latin (Italic, IE) (?)
 Domain  syntax — pronominalization, zero
 Type  rarum
 Keywords  parasitic gap
 Source  Bayer, Josef (1983). COMP in Bavarian syntax. Linguistic Review 3.
Haegeman, Liliane (1992). Generative Syntax: Theory and Description. A Case Study from West Flemish. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
 Violates  not yet in UA

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Discussion
Notes
e.g., Bavarian: an Sepp wenn i ÿ dawisch daschlog i ÿ [the Seppi if I get ÿi I slay ÿi]; wenn i an Sepp dawisch daschlog i eam/*ÿ [if I get the Seppi I slay himi/*ÿi] ?if I get Sepp I?ll slay him?
Comment
Frans Plank · 21 Sep 2006
e.g., Bavarian:
an Sepp wenn i ø dawisch daschlog i ø [the Seppi if I get ø I slay ø];
wenn i an Sepp dawisch daschlog i eam/*ø [if I get the Seppi I slay himi/*øi]
'if I get Sepp I'll slay him'