This paper is concerned with how NP/DP or PP survives as a remnant in English pseudogapping when an intransitive verb plus a preposition is used in a postcedent clause. In this regard, this paper makes two major claims: first, the criterion for reanalysis vs. non-reanalysis of the intransitive verb and preposition depends on semantic properties, and second, focus movement cum-deletion mechanism yields the remnant of NP/DP or PP.

Pseudogapping is treated as a combination of movement and ellipsis by many researchers. After reviewing some arguments based on movement analysis, I argue for a merge-based approach with the assumptions of Multiple Sphere Hypothesis (Im 2004-2012). The remnants in VP are not moved and elided but merged in Ω-sphere evading the PF deletion rule posited with the notion of E-GIVENness (Merchant 2001).