Voice mismatches beyond passives : sluicing with active impersonal antecedents
Linguistica Brunensia, 2021 While ellipsis tolerates various kinds of mismatches, sluicing does not allow for a mismatch in active/passive voice between an ellipsis site and its antecedent.
Andrew Murphy
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Reciprocal questions and the pragmatics of argument reversing verb phrase ellipsis [PDF]
, 2022 Adding to the literature on pragmatics-sensitive ellipsis, the current paper examines cases of argument mismatches in verb phrase ellipsis involving pairs of participants, termed argument reversals (ARs), and argues that they are primarily possible in ...
Balachandran, Lalitha
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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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Fragments and left-edge ellipsis: The division of labour between syntax, semantics, and prosody [PDF]
, 2022 This chapter provides a unified treatment of fragment ellipsis and left-edge ellipsis in English. Both processes are argued to be cases of ellipsis at the syntax–prosody interface, very late in the derivation.
Weir, Andrew, Andrew Weir
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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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Book review: The Syntactic Licensing of Ellipsis [PDF]
, 2011 Book review of The Syntactic Licensing of Ellipsis by Lobke ...
Gary Thoms, Thoms, Gary, Thoms, G.
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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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Null Bare Singular Subjects in Brazilian Portuguese: Topic Drop, not Argument Ellipsis [PDF]
, 2023 Brazilian Portuguese allows argument drop of bare singular subjects, a fact that has previously gone unobserved. This squib examines the status of argument-dropped bare singular subjects.
Panitz, Ezekiel
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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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Information Value and Argument/ Adjunct Asymmetry in Ellipsis in Japanese [PDF]
, 2023 In this paper, I will discuss some properties of argument ellipsis (AE) and adjunct ellipsis (AdjE) in Japanese, and argue that they are constrained by syntax as well as information value conditions.
奥, 聡
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