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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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The status of argument ellipsis as NP ellipsis or DP ellipsis
The Linguistic ReviewLandau (2023a. Argument ellipsis as external merge after transfer. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 41(2). 793–845) argues against Tomioka (2003. The semantics of Japanese null pronouns and its cross-linguistic implications.
Jun Abe
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Parasitic Gaps as Backward Argument Ellipsis [PDF]
ICUWPL, 2017 Overt wh-movement is irrelevant to licensing Japanese PGs. Rather, Japanese PGs should be analyzed by the argument ellipsis strategy, following Takahashi (2006).
Moriyama, Kazushige, 5897
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Clitics, DOM and ellipsis [PDF]
Isogloss, 2023 This paper discusses the correlation between clitics, DOM and ellipsis in Spanish. As observed by Cyrino & Ordóñez (2018), strict and sloppy readings can be obtained in both TP ellipsis and argument ellipsis with clitics.
Samara Almeida, Francisco Ordoñez
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Pre-DP only is a propositional operator at LF: a new argument from ellipsis [PDF]
Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 2022 Based on the scope possibilities of pre-DP only relative to modals and their interaction with ellipsis, we provide a new argument (following Benbaji 2021) for a theory according to which only is always a propositional operator at LF, despite surface ...
Itai Bassi, Aron Hirsch, Tue Trinh
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Argument ellipsis and strong islands [PDF]
, 2018 This thesis investigates two topics: (i) the distribution of argument ellipsis (AE) in languages that permit AE, and (ii) the status of strong islands (SIs). Regarding (i): The present thesis develops a novel account of the distribution of AE.
Panitz, Ezekiel Joseph
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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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Argument Ellipsis and Scope Economy in Japanese
Syntax, 2019 AbstractIn this article, I show that in Japanese, while some focus elements obligatorily take wide scope with respect to scope‐bearing predicative heads, argument ellipsis reverses this scope possibility, so that narrow‐scope interpretation of the focus element is obligatory.
M. Maeda
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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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