Argument Ellipsis, Anti-agreement, and Scrambling

Takahashi, Daiko

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199945207.003.0004

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“…In addition, the fact that (41c) must be interpreted parallel to (40b-i) and cannot have the adjunct-including reading, like (40b-ii), indicates that AE solely applies to the object, excluding the OOSP. This is not surprising, assuming (as we did above) that adjuncts in general are not subject to ellipsis (see Saito 2007;Takahashi 2014). VSVPE, however, would overgenerate this reading.…”

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Missing objects in Hebrew: Argument ellipsis, not VP ellipsis

Landau

2018

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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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 that are only consistent with AE, and more revealingly, data that can only be explained if VSVPE is unavailable. Finally, the verb preceding the missing object need not match the antecedent verb, falsifying the "Verb Identity Requirement". The conclusion that Hebrew employs AE (similarly to East Asian languages) but not VSVPE focuses attention both on the typology of AE and on the so-far hidden constraints against VSVPE derivations.

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Missing objects in Hebrew: Argument ellipsis, not VP ellipsis

Landau

2018

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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“…Subsequent work, such as that by Takahashi (,b, ), Miyagawa (), and Otaki et al. (), show that the same theory can correctly derive the position‐sensitive distribution of AE in several other languages, including Malayalam, Chinese, Portuguese, and Kaqchikel.…”

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“…A growing number of works (Oku ; Kim ; Saito ; Takahashi , ,b, ,b, , among others) have amassed considerable evidence that Japanese exhibits argument ellipsis (AE) as an independently available grammatical phenomenon. One of the primary arguments for AE concerns the availability of sloppy interpretations:…”

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Remarks on the Parameters of Argument Ellipsis: A New Perspective from Colloquial Singapore English

Sato

2016

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In this paper, I investigate the nature of parameters responsible for the distribution of argument ellipsis (AE) from the perspective of Colloquial Singapore English (CSE). One recent theory by Saito (2007) suggests that this process, technically analyzed through LF‐Copy, is blocked by ϕ‐feature agreements of T with subject DPs and v with object DPs, respectively. I provide evidence from Case marking, VP‐ and CP‐ellipsis, and Exceptional Case‐Marking constructions that in CSE both functional heads possess abstract ϕ‐feature agreement, as in Standard English. The agreement theory predicts that neither the null subject nor null object position should permit AE in CSE. The fact, however, is that AE is blocked in subject positions but permitted in object positions. I propose that AE in CSE is controlled, instead, by the presence of an operator–variable topic chain, formed to reflect the language's topic‐prominent profile, as manifested in its definite subject preference. This analysis is supported by the observation that the null subject position allows AE in CSE as long as it is not linked to the topic position, as in the case of the hanging topic construction. The alternative analysis suggests that the cross‐linguistic distribution of AE is conditioned by (at least) two parameters: agreement and topichood.

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“…The latter cases then present a case against the Anti-Agreement Hypothesis. Takahashi (2007Takahashi ( , 2010) also considers Basque as another language which would go against the predictions of the Anti-Agreement Hypothesis; see also Therefore, the Anti-Agreement Hypothesis is compatible with the assumption that Japanese actually has φ-agreement as long as it is manifested in functional categories other than T. See sections 5 and 6 for further discussions of Miyagawa"s theory and its relevance to argument ellipsis in CSE and beyond.…”

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“…A recent theory of argument ellipsis in Japanese and Korean (Oku 1998;Kim 1999;Takahashi 2007Takahashi , 2008aTakahashi , b, 2010 argues that these readings obtain as a result of the LF-Copy of an overt argument from a fullfledged clause onto the corresponding empty argument position in an elliptical clause. Şener & Takahashi (2010) and Takahashi (2010) hypothesize that this operation is blocked by φ-agreement. This hypothesis provides a principled explanation for the subject-object asymmetry in CSE, coupled with the new observation that primary substrates of CSE -Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien and Malay -exhibit the same asymmetry as CSE.…”

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