The Licensing of Parasitic Gaps
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One of the syntactic characteristics attributed to parasitic gaps in the literature is that they require the presence of an S-S variable. This licensing variable must not c-command the parasitic gap. In this paper I argue that an operator/variable pair is not the only essential environment allowing the licensing of parasitic gaps in Spanish at S-S contrary to what happens in English where only variables license these constructions. This paper adopts the theoretical assumptions of Government and Binding theory.
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