The Strategy of Remnant Extraction in English Pseudogapping

Abstract

This paper investigates the strategy of extracting the so-called remnant constituent out of the portion to be pseudogapped/ elided. There have been three proposals on this phenomenon: (i) overt A-movement (Lasnik 1995); (ii) covert QR (Thoms 2016); (iii) overt QR (Tanaka 2017). We show that despite their effectiveness, these proposals stop short of accounting for all the empirical aspects of remnant extraction in deriving Pseudogapping. We go on to show that another conceivable option of covert A-movement as an instance of remnant extraction is superior in its empirical coverage. To boot, this proposed strategy provides a handle for accounting for the difference between coordinate and subordinate structure in the formation of Pseudogapping.