Vikki Janke
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School of European Culture and Languages
Cornwallis Central CC127
University of Kent
Canterbury
Kent CT2 7NF
UK
Address: English Language and Lingustics
School of European Culture and Languages
Cornwallis Central CC127
University of Kent
Canterbury
Kent CT2 7NF
UK
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to surface in adjacent positions, which is a prerequisite for case checking in English. Economy has the effect that in all other circumstances, VP!shell formation is blocked. We show that this proposal correctly regulates word order in transitive and ditransitive
VPs, as well as in VPs that contain a particle. However, the main independent evidence we present comes from object!oriented floating quantifiers, whose distribution is limited to VP-shell structures. In developing this argument, we will propose an analysis of floating quantifiers as anaphoric adverbials. We will also compare this analysis with alternatives according to which floating quantifiers are stranded by movement.