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On the unavailability of argument ellipsis in Kaqchikel

2017
Argument ellipsis refers to the phenomenon of unpronounced nominal arguments that are interpreted as full noun phrases. One particularly influential account claims that argument ellipsis is possible if and only if the argument is not φ-agreed with — the Anti-Agreement Hypothesis (Saito 2007, Şener and Takahashi 2010). Otaki, Sugisaki, Yusa, and Koizumi
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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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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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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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Argument ellipsis and grammatical function mismatches

Abstract This chapter investigates ellipsis of arguments in Japanese, focusing on whether mismatches in grammatical functions between elided arguments and their antecedents interfere with the ellipsis process in question.
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Null arguments and ellipsis

2021
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ARGUMENT ELLIPSIS AND NP-<i>NI</i> IN INDIRECT PASSIVES

English Linguistics, 2022
Ryôichirô Kobayashi
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Argument ellipsis, weak heads, and labeling by Case

Abstract This paper proposes licensing conditions on argument ellipsis in terms of labeling. Given the LF copy analysis of argument ellipsis, the absence of φ-feature agreement is an overall necessary condition because of the activation condition on agreement.
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Idioms, argument ellipsis and LF-copy

Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 2020
Yosuke Sato, Sato Yosuke
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Force mismatch in clausal ellipsis

Linguistic Review, 2023
Idan Landau
exaly