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On an undocumented type of predicate ellipsis in Spanish and its consequences for the theory of ellipsis licensing [PDF]
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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Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2023 This article presents a descriptive and analytical overview of potential ellipsis cases in Spanish. After highlighting the main complications that the notion of ellipsis brings up, this work presents a detailed summary of the main empirical properties ...
Antonio Fábregas
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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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SAN: an Integrated Unmanned Air Vehicles Interdictor System Concept [PDF]
Problemy Mechatroniki, 2017 The development of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) has been very rapid recently. The wide accessibility of UAVs has unlocked a great potential for the malicious or accidental damage or destruction of property or other aircraft in flight.
Marcin KRÓL +4 more
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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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Verb-second and the verb-stranding verb phrase ellipsis debate
Glossa, 2021 Verb-stranding ellipsis, when a verb is stranded outside of the ellipsis site in which it originated, has been identified in a number of languages (Irish, McCloskey 1991; Hebrew, Doron 1999, Goldberg 2005; Greek, Merchant 2018; Uzbek, Gribanova, 2020; i ...
Emily Walker Manetta
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Imperatives and their interaction with VP-ellipsis in Spanish
Isogloss, 2023 In this squib, I focus on the interaction between imperative formation and head stranding ellipsis in Spanish, with the aim of reassessing Martins’ (1994) generalization that head movement from V to the polarity-encoding head Σ is a necessary condition ...
María Florencia Silva
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The Ellipsis of the Verb Phrase in Sanandaji Kurdish: A Minimalist Approach [PDF]
مطالعات زبانها و گویشهای غرب ایران, 2019 The present paper is about the ellipsis of the verb phrase construction in Sanandaji Kurdish language within the minimalist program. The ellipsis of the verb phrase construction has been challenged in recent studies in Iranian languages and various ...
Mojgan Osmani +3 more
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, 2021 This chapter provides an overview of the HPSG analyses of elliptical constructions. It first discusses three types of ellipsis (nonsentential utterances, predicate ellipsis, and non-constituent coordination) that have attracted much attention in HPSG. It then reviews existing evidence for and against the so-called direct interpretation or WYSIWYG (what
Joanna Nykiel, Jong-Bok Kim
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Comparatives and ellipsis [PDF]
Proceedings of the fifth conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics -, 1991 This paper analyses the syntax and semantics of English comparatives, and some types of ellipsis. It improves on other recent analyses in the computational linguistics literature in three respects: (i) it uses no tree- or logical-form rewriting devices in building meaning representations (ii) this results in a fully reversible linguistic description ...
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