TY - JOUR AU - Assmann, Muriel AU - Büring, Daniel AU - Jordanoska, Izabela AU - Prüller, Max PY - 2019/05/15 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Focus constraints on ellipsis – An unalternatives account JF - Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung JA - SuB VL - 22 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/81 SP - 109-126 AB - This paper presents a new account of the generalization that focused elements cannot be elided, framed within Unalternative Semantics, a framework that does away with syntactic F-marking. We propose the mirror image of the generalization: what is elided cannot introduce alternatives. We implement this as a focus restriction in UAS and then go on to show how to account for MAXELIDE effects using the same technique, without making reference to any transderivational constraints. ER -