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Covert nominals and argument ellipsis in Punjabi
Cogent Arts and 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)
Shahnila Tariq +2 more
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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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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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ON PRONOUNS, CLITIC DOUBLING, AND ARGUMENT ELLIPSIS: ARGUMENT ELLIPSIS AS PREDICATE ELLIPSIS
English Linguistics, 2018 Zeljko Boskovic
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Antecedent-contained argument ellipsis in Japanese
Journal of East Asian LinguisticsAbstractThis 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. The evidence is new in the sense that it is based on argument ellipsis, which the recent literature has convincingly shown
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Deletion in sentences with complex predicates in Persian: a phase-based approach [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2023 There is neither a general agreement among linguists nor any comprehensive works on how the process of deletion works in sentences with complex predicates in Persian.
Razieh Mahdi Beyraghdar +3 more
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Indefinite readings of referential null subjects and null objects in Spanish
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2023 It has been claimed in the literature that referential null subjects receive definite readings in consistent null-subject languages, like Spanish. That is why they are said to display the typical behavior of definite pronouns (pro). However, referential
Carlos Martínez García
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Verb-second and the verb-stranding verb phrase ellipsis debate
Glossa, 2021 Verb-stranding ellipsis, when a verb is stranded outside of the ellipsis site in which it originated, has been identified in a number of languages (Irish, McCloskey 1991; Hebrew, Doron 1999, Goldberg 2005; Greek, Merchant 2018; Uzbek, Gribanova, 2020; i ...
Emily Walker Manetta
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The Ellipsis of the Verb Phrase in Sanandaji Kurdish: A Minimalist Approach [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2019 The present paper is about the ellipsis of the verb phrase construction in Sanandaji Kurdish language within the minimalist program. The ellipsis of the verb phrase construction has been challenged in recent studies in Iranian languages and various ...
Mojgan Osmani +3 more
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Voice mismatches beyond passives : sluicing with active impersonal antecedents
Linguistica Brunensia, 2021 While ellipsis tolerates various kinds of mismatches, sluicing does not allow for a mismatch in active/passive voice between an ellipsis site and its antecedent.
Andrew Murphy
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