Rightward Movement and Antecedent-Contained Deletion: New Evidence from Hocąk

This paper examines data from Hocąk (Siouan) that provide empirical evidence for Fox’s (2002) analysis of antecedent-contained deletion (ACD). Fox (2002) argues that ACD is resolved by covert rightward movement of the object, followed by late merger of the relative clause containing the ellipsis site. Thus, the example in (1) has the derivation shown in (2)