@article{Authier_Haegeman_2014, title={An intervention account of the distribution of main clause phenomena: Evidence from ellipsis}, volume={4}, url={https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/iberia/article/view/224}, abstractNote={Based on an examination of some asymmetries between VP ellipsis and VP fronting, this paper argues for an intervention approach and against a truncation approach to the distribution of main clause phenomena in adverbial clauses and, by extension, in non-root contexts in general. Adopting Authier’s (2011) treatment of VP ellipsis whereby the to-be-elided VP undergoes fronting in the computational component but fails to be spelled out at PF, these asymmetries follow from the fact that a fronted VP, being an intervener for <em>wh</em>-movement in adverbial clauses, triggers a PF crash unless ellipsis allows the derivation to converge via <span>Bošković’s</span> (2011) ‘rescue by PF deletion’ mechanism. This proposal entails that adverbial clauses are derived by <em>wh</em>-movement (Haegeman (2006) among others) and that the landing site for VP fronting is available in a non-root environment, two assumptions that militate against a truncation account of non-root clauses.}, number={1}, journal={IBERIA: An International Journal of Theoretical Linguistics}, author={Authier, J.-­Marc and Haegeman, Liliane}, year={2014}, month={Nov.}, pages={61–91} }