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Metalinguistic ellipsis: playful silence in adverts, titles, and slogans

, 2022
‘Metalinguistic ellipsis’ flouts the conditions on ellipsis to playful and memorable effect; e.g. Everyday vehicles that aren’t, A DP that may not be, and Yes We Can.

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Identifying Null Arguments with Ellipsis

Studies in Generative Grammar, 2013
Korean allows the null argument construction. In the literature there has been a debate on whether the null argument involves ellipsis (the ellipsis approach) or pro, which can be construed as a bare nominal (the pro approach). In this squib, we argue, following Park and Bae (2012), that the null argument can also involve ellipsis, presenting some new ...
null Bum-Sik Park, null Sei-Rang Oh
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Mandarin null objects: Topic-binding over argument ellipsis

Natural language & linguistic theory
This study introduces novel data crucial for evaluating representative analyses of null objects in Mandarin Chinese. It advocates for what this article terms the Topic-bound Variable (TBV) analysis.
Alan Hezao Ke
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Ellipsis Constructions in Ukrainian : A Verbal Complex Perspective [PDF]

, 2022
This study explores the structure of Ukrainian verbal complex and elliptical constructions, specifically object gapping (OG) constructions. Building on the previous research on the topic of OG constructions (Gribanova (2013), Baylin (2017), Landau (2020))
Karbovnycha, Anna
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Syntax or nothing: Some theoretical and empirical remarks on implicit arguments

Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2014
I show that core implicit subjects in Spanish (i.e., the ones that occur with analytical passives, impersonal se, and causatives) can be derived from a theory under which absence of Merge in external subject position is a possible syntactic output.
Andres Saab
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Scope Without Scope Economy in Null Argument Constructions

Languages
Building on Fox’s Scope Economy, Takahashi proposes an analysis of scope interactions in Japanese null argument constructions. Scope Economy prevents covert scope-shifting operations such as Quantifier Raising (QR) from being semantically vacuous ...
Bum-Sik Park, Sei-Rang Oh
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Pick it up: a look at referential devices in Estonian child-directed speech

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2015
This paper compares the forms of expression of core verbal arguments in Estonian child-directed speech (CDS) with those in Estonian speech between adults (ADS).
Virve-Anneli Vihman
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Argument ellipsis vs. V-stranding VP ellipsis in Korean: Evidence from disjunction

Linguistic Research, 2016
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The semantics of ellipsis [PDF]

, 2008
There are four phenomena that are particularly troublesome for theories of ellipsis: the existence of sloppy readings when the relevant pronouns cannot possibly be bound; an ellipsis being resolved in such a way that an ellipsis site in the antecedent is
Elbourne, Paul
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A Hybrid Analysis of Null Argument Constructions in Japanese [PDF]

, 2021
In this paper, I present two new facts about Japanese null argument constructions that cannot be explained under the null pronoun analysis: a null argument in antipronominal contexts and overt extraction from the null site.
Ohtaka, Akane
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