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Antecedent-Contained Deletion within NPs: QR or Copy-and-Delete?

Examples with a structure similar to (1) are used by Kennedy (1997) to argue for a QR analysis of antecedent-contained deletion, and against Hornstein’s (1995) analysis of antecedent-contained deletion as being the result of A-movement at LF. I will explore a third possibility, namely copying combined with free deletion of structure at LF. Such an analysis is an extension of Hornstein’s, and it allows generation of the interpretation in (2); however, it does not exclude the interpretation in (3), and in this respect it contrasts with Kennedy’s analysis. I will first review Hornstein’s analysis and the objections to it that Kennedy raises; I will then show how the problem can be handled with copying and deletion.