Mansour Shabani
Abstract
This article shows that Persian fragments are derived via A'-movement of the remnant plus TP deletion. Evidence like case-matching, binding effects, and scope and bound pronouns show ...
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This article shows that Persian fragments are derived via A'-movement of the remnant plus TP deletion. Evidence like case-matching, binding effects, and scope and bound pronouns show that Persian fragments result from the application of deletion rule. But prior to this application, fragments are extracted out of the ellipsis site and moved to the left periphery of the sentence. Evidence like preposition stranding and complex predicates confirm the existence of movement in fragments. Deletion in fragments is licensed by [E]-feature which is in the focus head. Also, data related to fragments and islands in Persian show that fragments can be extracted out of different islands showing that Persian fragments are island-insensitive. To account for this property of Persian, we appeal to PF-theory of islands and propose that all island violations vanish due to TP deletion and that the sentence is rescued from a crash. Therefore, there is no need for positing an extra layer in left periphery and also a movement which lacks motivation and trigger.
