Right Node Raising: Ellipsis or Multidomination

The present study investigates and explains the derivation of Right node raising based on Coordinate constructions in Sanandajy Kurdish in the framework of Minimalist Program and its theoretical underpinnings. The data in this study were taken from the daily conversations of native speakers in Sanandaj. Observation of constructs containing Right node raising indicated that Right node raising in Sanandajy variety was not the product of a single process; rather, this construction is in fact the result of two processes, Multidomination and Ellipsis. It means that multidominance structure and elimination cause two different types of syntactic structures but their phonetic output is a similar superstructure representation. In addition, empirical evidence suggested that Right node raising in Sanandajy Kurdish followed Right Edge Restriction and constituents and non-constituents could be the target of Right node raising and their counterparts in the first paragraph lacked phonetic manifestation. Correspondingly, the right node raising in the Linguistic species of interest did not follow the constraint of the complex NP-islands.