TY - JOUR AU - Villa-García, Julio PY - 2016/12/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - TP-ellipsis with a polarity particle in multiple-complementizer contexts in Spanish: on topical remnants and focal licensors JF - Borealis – An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics JA - Borealis VL - 5 IS - 2 SE - Articles on the monographic topic DO - 10.7557/1.5.2.3781 UR - https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/borealis/article/view/3781 SP - 135-172 AB - <p>This paper investigates TP-ellipsis in Spanish in the context of multiple-complementizer clauses (i.e., … que XP que ellipsis licensor <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">ellipsis site</span>). The paper argues for a standard ΣP-account of TP ellipsis, with the polarity/focal item (e.g., también/tampoco/sí/no) crucially involved in the licensing of ellipsis. It is argued that the XP-que sequence is hosted in TopicP. The XP is a contrastive topic functioning as the remnant of TP-ellipsis and que is an instance of recomplementation que –a topic marker. The ellipsis licensor, for its part, sits in a CP-related projection that follows TopicP. Given the parallelism drawn here between the items that can partake in the licensing of TP-ellipsis and run-of-the-mill focused phrases, the paper puts forth the claim that ΣP and FocusP should be conflated. Similarly, I explore the relationship established between TopicP (the remnant) and ΣP/FocusP (the ellipsis licensor) in the process of TP ellipsis as well as offer an account of the inability of jussive/optative que to survive ellipsis, unlike recomplementation que.</p> ER -