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The role of L1 in L2 speech production at different stages of L2 development: Evidence from L2 Chinese oral production of verb-phrase ellipsis by English and Korean speakers [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
The article reports on an empirical study investigating the role of L1 at the initial and developmental stages of L2 speech production. It examines two types of Chinese verb- phrase-ellipsis, ΣP-ellipsis licensed by the auxiliary shi ‘BE’ and vP-ellipsis
Lulu Zhang, Boping Yuan, Boping Yuan
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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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A Q-based approach to clausal ellipsis: Deriving the preposition stranding and island sensitivity generalisations without movement

Glossa, 2019
This paper argues that the meaning of a clausal ellipsis site can only be recovered from a syntactically derived question, regardless of whether this question is explicitly uttered or is merely pragmatically inferred.
James Griffiths
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Reconsidering asymmetries in voice-mismatched VP-ellipsis

Glossa, 2019
Previous research on VP-ellipsis has revealed the existence of a Mismatch Asymmetry, whereby cases with passive voice ellipsis clauses and active antecedent clauses are less acceptable than cases with active ellipsis clauses and passive antecedents ...
Andrew Kehler, Till Poppels
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Missing objects in Hebrew: Argument ellipsis, not VP ellipsis

Glossa, 2018
Hebrew is standardly cited as a language exhibiting Verb-stranding VP-ellipsis (VSVPE). Systematic reassessment of the data demonstrates that all the alleged evidence for VSVPE is consistent with Argument Ellipsis (AE); furthermore, there are ample data ...
Idan Landau
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ON PRONOUNS, CLITIC DOUBLING, AND ARGUMENT ELLIPSIS: ARGUMENT ELLIPSIS AS PREDICATE ELLIPSIS

ENGLISH LINGUISTICS, 2018
© 2018 by the English Linguistic Society of Japan * This paper is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant BCS-0920888.
Ž. Bošković
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Deadjectival human nouns : conversion, nominal ellipsis, or mixed category? [PDF]

Linguística, 2013
Whereas deadjectival nouns referring to humans such as the Germans have been analyzed as the result of morphological conversion, the human construction the rich in English has been analyzed as a special case of nominal ellipsis.
Petra Sleeman
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In defense of verb‐stranding VP ellipsis

Syntax, 2023
This remark offers arguments against recent challenges to analyses that postulate verb‐stranding VP ellipsis (Idan Landau, “On the nonexistence of verb‐stranding VP‐ellipsis,” 2020, Linguistic Inquiry 51.2.341–365; Satoshi Oku, “A note on ellipsis ...
Andrew Simpson
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On an undocumented type of predicate ellipsis in Spanish and its consequences for the theory of ellipsis licensing

Isogloss, 2023
In this paper, we introduce and discuss a type of ellipsis in Spanish, undocumented in the previous literature, which we will refer to as Predicate Phrase Ellipsis (PredP-Ellipsis), and its consequences for the theory of ellipsis licensing.
Andrés Saab, Laura Stigliano
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A prosodic theory of possible ellipsis remnants

Glossa, 2022
We formulate a new generalization of the distribution of ellipsis remnants: Ellipsis cannot strand functional material to the exclusion of a potential prosodic host (the Stranding Generalization). Explaining the Stranding Generalization requires a theory
Itai Bassi, Justin Colley
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