A Cross-Linguistic Look at VP-Ellipsis and Verbal Speech Errors

A Cross-Linguistic Look at VP-Ellipsis and Verbal Speech Errors Conference

Thompson, E. (2005). A Cross-Linguistic Look at VP-Ellipsis and Verbal Speech Errors . 163-164.

This paper argues that consideration of spontaneous speech errors provides insight into cross-linguistic analyses of syntactic phenomena. In particular, I claim that differences in the distribution of non-parallel VP-Ellipsis constructions in English and German, as well as variation in the spontaneously-occurring verbal speech errors, is explained by a parametric analysis of variation in the inflectional systems of the two languages.