A remark on P-stranding with corrective sondern ‘but’ in German

Toosarvandani 2012 presents a cogent alternative to Johnson 2009, following Coppock 2001, based on Toosarvandani 2011’s analysis of constituent negation.1 On this analysis, low gapping involves movement of remnants out of and ellipsis of a predicate node. This makes the right predictions in combination with corrective but; as Toosarvandani 2011 shows, corrective but requires negation in the first conjunct and this negation takes scope only over that first conjunct. For examples like (1), then, the analysis is that given (2), where the argument PP to Ben moves out of its VP to a VP-external position overtly, and its correlate PP to Abby in VPA undergoes an equivalent movement covertly to generate the identical VP antecedent that allows for the ellipsis of VPE . The subject Sam moves in an Across-The-Board manner from both vP conjuncts.