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Nominal Ellipsis in Chinese

2023
Chinese prominently allows its subjects and objects (arguments) or parts of arguments to be omitted (labeled as nominal ellipsis). This partially contributes to the widespread perception that Chinese is a discourse-oriented or topic-prominent language and that discourse/context or pragmatics are responsible for leaving elements unsaid and for ...
Audrey Yen-hui Li, Ting-chi Wei
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An Ellipsis of the Copula ‘shi(是)’ in Chinese Nominal Sentences

Korea Journal of Chinese Language and Literature, 2019
Lee Seul-ki
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An Ellipsis Analysis of Split Nominals in Thai

Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale, 2015
This study investigates the non-adjacent co-occurrence of a nominal (N) and a combination of a numeral and a classifier (Nume-Cl) associated with N in Thai. Having established that Nume-Cl does not occupy an argument or adjunct position, the study proposes an ellipsis analysis, where the Nume-Cl is base-generated in a separate clause and moves to a ...
Singhapreecha, P., Sybesma, R.P.E.
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Objects and nothingness: Applicative-licensed nominal ellipsis

Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America
Existing accounts of Mandarin elided objects, such as true empty category (TEC), provide broad data coverage but face empirical and theoretical challenges.
Yuyang Liu
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The Role of Agreement Morphology in the Licensing of the Italian Nominal Ellipsis: Insights from Acquisition Data

This paper investigates the spontaneous production of nominal (NP) ellipsis by typically developing Italian acquiring children with the aim to verify the role of morphological agreement as licensing factor of the Italian NP ellipsis. The present study adds to previous acquisition research verifying whether the DP-internal agreement is the relevant ...
Caterina Tasinato, Emanuela Sanfelici
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Implications of Ellipsis Cohesion in Al-Furuq Book Zainal Abidin Munawwir's Work and Its Translation into Indonesian

Al-Irfan : Journal of Arabic Literature and Islamic Studies
Elliptical cohesion is a part of research in the field of translation science, namely the expression of meaning from one language to another language as intended by the author.
Ummi Rohmatuningsih, Arief Ma'nawi, Sajarwa Sajarwa   +2 more
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Argument ellipsis and the licensing of covert nominals in Bangla, Hindi and Malayalam

Lingua, 2013
Abstract This paper investigates the licensing of Argument Ellipsis/AE in three major languages of South Asia: Bangla, Malayalam and Hindi and a recent claim made in Sener and Takahashi (2009) and Takahashi, 2011 , Takahashi, in press that the critical factor responsible for AE in null argument languages is the absence of verbal agreement ...
Andrew Simpson, Arunima Choudhury, Mythili Menon   +2 more
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Direct Object Ellipsis with a Nominative Antecedent

2005
Abstract As the last chapter showed, direct objects are readily elided when there is an accessible syntactic antecedent that is also a direct object. When the antecedent is syn tactically accessible but not a direct object, DO-ellipsis potential is significantly restricted but not ruled out altogether. This chapter discusses what factors
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VP Ellipsis beyond syntactic identity: the case of nominal antecedents

2014
(1) a. We should suggest to her that she officially appoint us as a committee and invite faculty participation. They won’t, of course, (UPENN email message) (Hardt 1993:35, (116)) b. Mubarak’s survival is impossible to predict and, even if he does, his plan to make his son his heir apparent is now in serious jeopardy.
Miller, Philip, Hemforth, Barbara
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Notes on nominal ellipsis and the nature of no and classifiers in Japanese

, 2010
A. Watanabe
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