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. belle lo sono? beautiful it are Beautiful they are. In sum then, the hypothesis that D is the nominalisor in Italian while Greek nominals are NumPs can account for the rich inventory of D elements in Italian as well as the weaker definite semantics of D elements in this language. 4.2 Indefinite Argument Drop and Bare Subnominal Ellipsis As Giannakidou and Merchant (1997) show, Greek Indefintie Argument Drop (IAD) involves recycling of the descriptive content of the antecedent (or property anaphora in terms of Tomioka 2003).Crucially, it does not pick the discourse referent of the antecedent. 26 Con- sider (69). Example (69a) does not allow a reading in which Nafsika dried the dishes Napoleo- das washed, a reading available in (69b) where the pronoun is used. On the basis of the obligatoriness of the disjoint reading in (69a), Giannakidou and Merchant (1997) conclude that an empty pro analysis, proposed by Dimitriadis (1994) is not possible, since it would predict the co-referential reading in (69b). What IAD involves in (69a) is the recycling of the descriptive content of the antecedent, i.e. piata but not the specific set introduced by the antecedent. (69) a. o Napoleodas epline piata ke i Nafsika skupise the-nom Napoleodas-nom washed-3sg dishes and the-nom Nafsika dried-sg Napoleon washed dishes and Nafsika dried dishes. (Disjoint reading) 26 See Giannakidou and Merchant (1997) for a detailed discussion of the properties of IAD. Panagiotidis (2002) excludes a VP-ellips analysis of the phenomenon; his main argument is that all restrictions relevant to IAD involve the nominal antecedent and never any verbal element. Further, examples like (i), where only the object is dropped but other parts of the VP are overt indicate that what is dropped is just the object. (i) ti mia mera vrike dulia o Yorgos stu Zografu ke to epomeno proi the one day found-3sg job the-nom Yorgos-nom at-the Zografu and the next morning vrike i Maria stin Kesariani found-3sg the-nom Maria at-the Kesariani One day Yorgos found a job at Zografu and the next morning Maria found one at Kesariani. 38
. o Napoleodas epline (ta) piatai ke i Nafsika tai the-nom Napoleodas-nom washed the skupise dried-3sg dishes and the-nom Nafsika them Napoleon washed (the) dishes and Nafsika dried them. That these cases involve property anaphora is further confirmed by the fact that adjec- tives like tetios/tetia/tetio standardly used for concept or property anaphora (Kolliakou 2003) license argument drop. (70) a. vrikes teties (melitzanes)? found-2sg such-acc.fem.pl (aubergines) Did you find such ones/aubergines? b. ne, vrika yes, found-1sg Yes, I found. Further, Giannakidou and Merchant (1997) establish that IAD is licensed by weak indefinite quantifiers while strong quantifiers necessitate a pronoun. (71) a. Q:Efere o Adreas ola ta/ke ta dio/ta perisotera vivila Q:Brought-3sg the-nom Adreas all the/and the two/the most books Did Adread bring all/both/most books? b. A:Ne, *(ta) efere A:Yes, *(them) brought-3sg Yes, he brought them. (Giannakidou:Merchant:1997) (72) a. Efere o Adreas merika/kapja/liga/deka/tulahiston brought-3sg the-nom Adreas several/some/a-few/ten/at-least tria/parapano apo tria/tipota/∅ vivlia three/more from three/any/∅ books Did Andreas bring several/some/a few/at least three/more than three/any/∅ books? b. Ne, (*ta) efere e. Yes, (them) brought-3sg e Yes he brought several/some/a few/ten/at least three/more than three/some/∅ books. 39
Page 1 and 2: Topic-strategies and the internal s
Page 3 and 4: 1 Introduction Clitic Left Dislocat
Page 5 and 6: (5) a. Fetos i moda ine apesia; idi
Page 7 and 8: evidence of reconstruction, and, th
Page 9 and 10: 3.1 Greek manipulates structure whi
Page 11 and 12: 3.2 Indefinite pronominal anteceden
Page 13 and 14: 3.3 Bare nouns As has become eviden
Page 15 and 16: systematically employs articles and
Page 17 and 18: Syntax They can be left dislocated
Page 19 and 20: Further, Greek bare nouns have atom
Page 21 and 22: You will need a skirt sewn in India
Page 23 and 24: 4.1.2 Towards a crosslinguistic typ
Page 25 and 26: semantics of Greek Number? We will
Page 27 and 28: e felicitous subjects, even under r
Page 29 and 30: However, the data below indicate th
Page 31 and 32: generalisation is that only languag
Page 33 and 34: that the definite is a noun phrase.
Page 35 and 36: excellent one (so the time we took
Page 37: (66) *den prokite na vri ti yineka
Page 41 and 42: (75) a. o Yanis psahni idravliko al
Page 43 and 44: Let us now turn to subnominal ellip
Page 45 and 46: Beautiful she is. b. belle lo sono?
Page 47 and 48: just semantically definite elements
Page 49 and 50: topic-strategies between the two la
Page 51 and 52: Alexopoulou, T. and C. Heycock (200
Page 53 and 54: Giusti, G. (1997). The categorial s
Page 55 and 56: Sells, P. (1984). Syntax and Semant

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