FW: LFG Question

[Joan Bresnan]

Have a look at Lori Levin's analysis of ellipsis (Sluicing) in Bresnan
(ed.) 1982.

J.


> Folks,
>
> I would like to know if it would be plausible in LFG to have an
> f-structure verb, e.g. 'to say', which has no c-structure position, i.e.
> more or less how (I understand that) LFG treats null pronouns. To give a
> hypothetical example, something like:
>
> John ... 'Bill would come tomorrow'.
>
> Where there is a null verb 'to say' but the only things one actually
> hears are the subject and complement of this verb.
>
> If so, is there any publicly available work on this that someone could
> direct me to?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan Everett