A correspondence between syntactic and prosodic constituency has been observed for many languages, and Malagasy (VOS) is no exception: the predicate and subject each forms its own phonological phrase, marked at its right edge with a rising pitch accent (i.e., phonological phrasing is ). Imperatives, though, exhibit a different pattern: imperative verb heads and their...

Economy in PF-Reduction: Why and when (not) to elide multidominant structures? In this talk, reporting on joint work with Martina Gračanin-Yuksek, we examine two ways in which a syntactic structure can be PF-reduced (unpronounced): multidominance (MD) and ellipsis. If both ellipsis and MD are available in principle, the following questions arise: (i) what factors influence the choice between ellipsis and...