Constraints on aspectual complement ellipsis. The view from Romanian

Abstract

AbstractRomanian aspectual complement ellipsis reveals the fact competing selection frames of verbs filter out potentially well-formed instances of deletion, this situation revealing yet another constraint on ellipsis with verbal licensers. Situations of this sort were dealt with in previous generative models by assuming “global derivational constraints” no longer available in the current minimalist architecture of the grammar. After delimiting the domain of ellipsis with verbal licensers in Romanian (the passive auxiliary