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Ellipsis, economy, and the (non)uniformity of traces [PDF]
, 2016 A number of works have attempted to account for the interaction between movement and ellipsis in terms of an economy condition Max- Elide. We show that the elimination of MaxElide leads to an empirically superior account of these interactions.
Messick, Troy, Thoms, Gary
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Elipse do VP e variação paramétrica
Cadernos de Estudos Lingüísticos, 2011 Data from English show that VP ellipsis only occurs when, in Syntax, a verbal element is in a functional head that locally c-comands the ellipsis. However, if we accept this analysis, we cannot explain languages in which T and C have uninterpretable ...
Sonia Maria Lazzarini Cyrino +1 more
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Resumption as a sluicing source in Saudi Arabic: Evidence from sluicing with prepositional phrases
Glossa, 2020 This paper reports the results of three acceptability judgment experiments on Saudi Arabic elliptical questions (sluicing) with prepositional phrases. We show that in standard cases of merger type sluicing and contrastive sluicing there is no penalty for
Klaus Abels, Yara Alshaalan
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Does antecedent complexity affect ellipsis processing? An empirical investigation
Glossa, 2017 In two self-paced reading experiments, we investigated the effect of changes in antecedent complexity on processing times for ellipsis. Pointer- or “sharing”-based approaches to ellipsis processing (Frazier & Clifton 2001, 2005; Martin & McElree ...
Bruno Nicenboim +2 more
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Elipsis Posposisi Bahasa Jepang dalam Komik Akira Karya Hiromasa Okushima
Ranah: Jurnal Kajian Bahasa, 2023 In the context of everyday conversation, there is a phenomenon of ellipsis or disappearance in Japanese. One element of the word class that experiences ellipsis is postposition, which is a word class that plays an essential role in clarifying the ...
Mhd. Pujiono, Abdul Gapur, Taulia Taulia
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A Contrastive Study of Persian and English Written Discourse: Ellipsis in Realistic Novels [PDF]
Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2008 This study aspires to examine the concept of ellipsis by comparing and contrasting English and Persian written texts. For this purpose, three Persian novels and three English ones were selected.
Esmail Faghih, Sepideh Rahimpour
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, 2013 We investigate the sources of betting constructions, and specifically their predicates. The notion of risking something of value on an outcome is a complex one. Culturally, some degree of disposability of property is required. The concept is nevertheless
Hollmann, Willem +2 more
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Unveiling Topic-Remnant Elided Polar Questions
Borealis: An International Journal of Hispanic Linguistics, 2023 This paper offers an in-depth analysis of a novel elliptical construction Spanish, dubbed Topic-Remnant Elided Polar Questions (or polar TREQs in short).
Laura Stigliano
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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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On the distribution of adjectives in Romanian : the cel construction [PDF]
, 2008 This paper deals with the variable position of adjectives in the Romanian DP. As all other Romance languages, Romanian allows for adjectives to appear in both prenominal and post-nominal position.
Alexiadou, Artemis, Marchis, Mihaela
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