Motivation
Collins and Postal (2012, 2014) contain lots of data obtained from Internet searches. Such data is also cited extensively in chapters 2 and 3 of my forthcoming monograph “Principles of Argument Structure: A Merge Based Approach”. In this blog post, I offer a few guidelines on using such data in syntactic research.
Motivation
Collins and Postal (2012, 2014) contain a large amount of data obtained from Internet searches. Similarly, such data is cited extensively in chapters 2 and 3 from my forthcoming monograph “Principles of Argument Structure: A Merge Based Approach”.
There are various processes by which the phonetic form of a word or a phrase is not pronounced (e.g., ellipsis under identity with an antecedent, but others as well). For example, in VP ellipsis, we have:
(1)
John left early, and Mary did <leave early> too.
