This paper argues that consideration of spontaneous speech errors provides insight into cross-linguistic analyses of syntactic phenomena. In particular, I claim that differences in the distribution of non-parallel VP-Ellipsis constructions in English and German, as well as variation in the spontaneously-occurring verbal speech errors, is explained by a parametric analysis of variation in the inflectional systems of the two languages.
Cite as: Thompson, E. (2005) A cross-linguistic look at VP-ellipsis and verbal speech errors. Proc. Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS 2005), 163-164
@inproceedings{thompson05_diss,
author={Ellen Thompson},
title={{A cross-linguistic look at VP-ellipsis and verbal speech errors}},
year=2005,
booktitle={Proc. Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech (DiSS 2005)},
pages={163--164}
}