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Covert nominals and argument ellipsis in Punjabi
Cogent Arts & Humanities, 2023 The focus of the study is to find out the potential identity of null arguments in Punjabi. However, the paper provides different patterns of interpretations of null arguments present in Punjabi by keeping in view the propositions of Takahashi (2012, July)
Bisma Butt +4 more
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Multiple Argument Ellipsis and the Universal Uniqueness Principle
LanguagesThis paper is concerned with a peculiar asymmetry between single and multiple argument ellipsis in Japanese: ellipsis of a single argument is sensitive to syntactic constraints and LF interpretive effects, whereas multiple argument ellipsis is not.
Toru Ishii, Brian Agbayani
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Brazilian Portuguese argument ellipsis
Isogloss, 2023 The present study puts forward a novel analysis of argument ellipsis (AE) in Brazilian Portuguese (BP), according to which AE in BP takes place in a clitic doubling configuration, where the clitic is a phonologically null clitic and AE targets the ...
Ezekiel Panitz
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The Puzzle of Argument Structure Mismatch in Gapping [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Voice mismatch between conjuncts is impossible in the gapping construction. Some recent studies explained this effect by analyzing gapping as involving the ellipsis of a category at least as large as VoiceP.
Jiayi Lu, Nayoun Kim
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Missing objects in Hebrew: Argument ellipsis, not VP ellipsis
Glossa, 2018 Hebrew is standardly cited as a language exhibiting Verb-stranding VP-ellipsis (VSVPE). Systematic reassessment of the data demonstrates that all the alleged evidence for VSVPE is consistent with Argument Ellipsis (AE); furthermore, there are ample data ...
Idan Landau
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Subject-object asymmetries in Persian argument ellipsis and the anti-agreement theory
Glossa, 2016 We investigate the distribution of argument ellipsis in Persian in the context of the recent debate concerning the derivation of null arguments. Using sloppy/quantificational interpretations of elided arguments, we show that Persian exhibits subject ...
Simin Karimi, Yosuke Sato
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On Pronouns, Clitic Doubling, and Argument Ellipsis: Argument Ellipsis as Predicate Ellipsis
English Linguistics, 2018 © 2018 by the English Linguistic Society of Japan * This paper is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant BCS-0920888.
Zeljo Boskovic
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Antecedent-Contained Argument Ellipsis in Japanese
Journal of East Asian LinguisticsThis article aims to provide new and solid evidence for the observation made in the previous literature that antecedent containment needs to be resolved in overt syntax in cases of antecedent contained deletion in Japanese.
Daiko Takahashi
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On the Derivation of Mandarin Null Subject Arguments: Support for the Argument Ellipsis Analysis
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of AmericaRelying on the classic sloppy identity diagnostic, prior research has observed that empty subjects in Mandarin Chinese cannot yield the sloppy identity reading, thus indicating that argument ellipsis (AE) is unavailable.
Chen-Xi Xia
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Adverbial Particle Modification and Argument Ellipsis in Japanese
Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 2022 Hideki Kishimoto
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