Parasitic gap
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parasitic-gap-217-2943216
title:
Parasitic gap
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In generative grammar, a parasitic gap is a construction in which one gap appears to be dependent on another gap. Thus, the one gap can appear only by virtue of the appearance of the other gap, hence the former is said to be "parasitic" on the latter. For example, in the example sentence in (1) the first gap is represented by an underscore, and appears as a result of movement of the constituent which explanation to the beginning of the sentence. The second gap is represented by an underscore wit
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitic_gap
date created:
2004-03-30T12:41:35Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T01:01:59Z
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