Experimental Evidence for a Minimalist Account of English Resumptive Pronouns

Authors

Dana McDaniel PhD, University of Southern MaineFollow
Wayne Cowart PhD, University of Southern MaineFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-1-1999

Publication Title

Cognition

Abstract

Evidence is provided for a minimalist account of English-type resumptive pronouns. According to this account, resumptive pronouns are spell-outs of traces. For reasons of economy, the resumptive pronoun surfaces only when the derivation with the trace is precluded by syntactic principles. The results bore out the prediction.

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Recommended Citation

McDaniel, Dana, and Wayne Cowart. "Experimental Evidence for a Minimalist Account of English Resumptive Pronouns." Cognition, 1999, Vol. 70, no 2, pp. B15-B24.