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Bare Argument Ellipsis and its Relatives

2005
AbstractThis chapter discusses elliptical constructions. Topics covered include nonsentential utterance types, problems for a syntactic account of bare argument ellipsis, reasons to believe syntax is involved in BAE, generalizations behind indirect licensing, a mechanism for indirect licensing, sluicing and sluice-stranding, and gapping.
Peter W. Culicover, Ray Jackendoff
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Quantificational Null Objects and Argument Ellipsis

Linguistic Inquiry, 2008
This article provides a new argument for the analysis of null arguments in terms of ellipsis by considering null objects that behave like quantifiers. It is shown that the presence of quantificational null objects and their scopal property are difficult to accommodate under the traditional view of null arguments as pronouns but are best accounted for ...
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Bare Argument Ellipsis and Focus

2016
This monograph explores the syntax and information structure of bare argument ellipsis. The study concentrates on stripping, which is identified as a subtype of bare argument ellipsis typically associated with focus sensitive particles or negation.
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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.
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Against ellipsis: arguments for the direct licensing of ‘noncanonical’ coordinations

Linguistics and Philosophy, 2015
Categorial grammar is well-known for its elegant analysis of coordination enabled by the flexible notion of constituency it entertains. However, to date, no systematic study exists that examines whether this analysis has any obvious empirical advantage over alternative analyses of nonconstituent coordination available in phrase structure-based theories
Yusuke Kubota, Robert Levine
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Null arguments and ellipsis: Theoretical perspectives

2021
This chapter analyses of null arguments that were initially proposed in the generative tradition for spoken languages. In natural languages, including sign languages, some categories need to be overtly expressed, although they are active both syntactically and semantically. A pretty clear fact is that when an argument is null, there must be some way to
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Pronouns, null arguments, and ellipsis in Mandarin Chinese

2019
This paper argues that both overt and null pronouns in Mandarin are the elliptical counterparts of corresponding overt noun phrases. Specifically, null pronouns are the pronominal counterparts of bare nouns, which are typically restricted to unique definite environments, while overt pronouns are the pronominal counterparts of demonstrative descriptions,
Bi, Ruyue Agnes, Jenks, Peter
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Type-Restricted Argument Ellipsis and Generalized Quantifiers

Linguistic Inquiry
Theories of argument ellipsis based on PF deletion or LF copying do not generate predictions regarding possible constraints on the semantic type of the elided argument. Yet such constraints obtain, as documented in Landau 2022: only type-e arguments can be targeted by argument ellipsis. Focusing on quantificational arguments here, I show that when they
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On Extraction out of the Argument Ellipsis Site

Language and Linguistics, 2019
This paper addresses interesting extraction patterns in nominal ellipsis. Based on Han, Kim, Moulton, and Lidz’s (to appear) recent proposal that the internal structure exists in null argument position in Korean, we investigate under what context a constituent could be extracted from the nominal, part of which has been elided.
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Null arguments and ellipsis

2021
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