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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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Gender and interpretation in Greek: Comments on Merchant (2014)
Glossa, 2020 Merchant (2014, “Gender mismatches under nominal ellipsis”, Lingua, 151: 9–32) makes the following two claims about nominal ellipsis in (Modern) Greek. (i) There are three classes of MASCULINE-FEMININE noun pairs that differ in whether nominal ellipsis ...
Giorgos Spathas, Yasutada Sudo
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Predicate formation and verb-stranding ellipsis in Uzbek
Glossa, 2020 This paper investigates the interaction between head movement of the verb and ellipsis of vP (verb-stranding ellipsis, VSE) in Uzbek — an understudied Turkic language of Central Asia.
Vera Gribanova
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French adverbial clauses: rescue by ellipsis and the truncation vs. intervention debate [PDF]
, 2015 This paper investigates the restrictions on movement to the left periphery found in non-root environments such as French central adverbial clauses and argues that an analysis of main clause phenomena based on intervention/Relativized Minimality is to be ...
Authier, Jean-Marc, Haegeman, Liliane
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Less Form, More Meaning: A Case Study of in the Qur’an Through the Prism of Dependency Grammar
SAGE Open, 2023 Ellipsis pervades the Qur’anic discourse. One pervasive form of it is al-iẖtibāk (“interchangeable ellipsis”). In terms of the interface between Qur’anic exegesis and Arabic rhetoric, the phenomenon of al-iẖtibāk is far more than a rhetorically heuristic
Hamada Hassanein
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A constructional study of the compounds of body part “Sar” (head) in Persian [PDF]
زبان پژوهی, 2020 This paper aims to examine the construction of the word-formation pattern [sar-X] (compounds of the body part “head”) in Persian and investigate its semantic variations, the most general schema and subschemas both synchronically and diachronically ...
Ava Imani, Adel Rafiei
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MaxElide and clause structure in Scottish Gaelic [PDF]
, 2014 No abstract ...
Thoms, Gary
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Identifying Null Arguments with Ellipsis
Studies in Generative Grammar, 2013 Korean allows the null argument construction. In the literature there has been a debate on whether the null argument involves ellipsis (the ellipsis approach) or pro, which can be construed as a bare nominal (the pro approach). In this squib, we argue, following Park and Bae (2012), that the null argument can also involve ellipsis, presenting some new ...
null Bum-Sik Park, null Sei-Rang Oh
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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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, 2013 We investigate the sources of betting constructions, and specifically their predicates. The notion of risking something of value on an outcome is a complex one. Culturally, some degree of disposability of property is required. The concept is nevertheless
Hollmann, Willem +2 more
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