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parasitic gap  
  
600   03:14 مساءً   date: 2023-10-21
Author : David Crystal
Book or Source : A dictionary of linguistics and phonetics
Page and Part : 350-16


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parasitic gap

A term in later GENERATIVE GRAMMAR for a syntactic gap in a SENTENCE which is possible only because the sentence contains an ordinary gap; it is therefore dependent or ‘parasitic’ upon the ordinary gap. The following example involves a parasitic gap, indicated by p, and an ordinary gap, indicated by e: Which film did he criticize e without seeing p? The parasitic gap is possible only because the ordinary gap is present; hence, the following is ungrammatical: *He criticized Henry V without seeing p.