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Pseudogapping is a form of ellipsis where constituents inside a Verb Phrase (VP) dominated by an auxiliary move outside the VP, whereupon the VP itself gets elided. Gengel (2006) explores pseudogapping in Scandinavian in general and Icelandic in particular. Gengel proposes the generalization that there are only prepositional remnants in Scandinavian pseudogapping. She also mentions that pseudogapping does not occur in Swedish. In this presentation I will show evidence that there is in fact pseudogapping in Swedish, and that--in at least Swedish--it is not limited to prepositional remnants. I explore the implications of the Swedish data for ellipsis in particular and for current syntactic theory in general. |
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