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Null Objects in Korean: Experimental Evidence for the Argument Ellipsis Analysis

Linguistic Inquiry, 2020
Null object (NO) constructions in Korean and Japanese have received different accounts: as (a) argument ellipsis (Oku 1998, S. Kim 1999, Saito 2007, Sakamoto 2015), (b) VP-ellipsis after verb raising (Otani and Whitman 1991, Funakoshi 2016), or (c ...
Chung-hye Han, Kyeong-min Kim, Keir Moulton, J. Lidz   +3 more
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Comparative syntax of argument ellipsis in languages without agreement: A case study with Mandarin Chinese

Journal of Linguistics, 2018
This paper investigates the cross-linguistic distribution of argument ellipsis (AE) with an emphasis on Chinese, an Asian language well-known for its lack of overt morphological agreement. It is observed in the literature that Japanese permits AE in both
Yosuke Sato
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Argument Ellipsis, Anti-Agreement, and Scrambling

2014
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Argument Ellipsis: A Unitary Approach to Pro-Drop

Linguistic Review, 2014
Maia Duguine
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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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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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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
Erlewine, Michael Yoshitaka, Levin, Theodore   +1 more
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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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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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