The syntax of ellipsis and related phenomena

Yoshida, Minoru; Nakao, Chizuru; Ortega-Santos, Iván

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“…Ellipsis has been well studied from the different perspectives in syntax (Winkler, 2015;Yoshida et al, 2014), text linguistics (Halliday & Hasan, 1976), psycholinguistics (Frazier, 2019;Phillips & Parker, 2014) and in grammar/pragmatics interface (Lee, 2007). Despite these and much other research in the field, the theoretical debates on ellipsis such as the issues of abstract structure, recoverability, and licensing in the study of this unique phenomenon have drawn considerable attention in the recent years (Van Craenenbroeck & Temmerman, 2019).…”

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Pragmatic Function of Ellipsis in Political Interview

Mammadov,

Agamaliyeva

2023

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Any interview reflects the general trend of economy and efficiency in terms of language use. It implies that language is a crucial tool at the disposal of the participants of interview. In this connection, political interview draws a special interest as it serves as an excellent platform that demonstrates how a balance between explicitness and implicitness could be found for successful social interaction. Since success is critical for both participants of political interview, they are eager to achieve it using all available linguistic devices. From this perspective, the role of ellipsis appears to be crucial because of its unique ability to provide minimum explicit linguistic devices and at the same time to deliver necessary message relying on extra-linguistic and linguistic contexts. Thus, the paper aims to explore the pragmatic functions of various elliptical constructions extensively used in political interview. The conversation analysis of these constructions suggests that the instances of their usages are motivated by both linguistic and extra-linguistic contexts.

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Pragmatic Function of Ellipsis in Political Interview

Mammadov,

Agamaliyeva

2023

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“…(9) than the hamburgersizzled appetizingly It is clear that resolving ellipsis in comparison structures is crucial for language understanding and failure to do so would deliver an incorrect meaning representation. Numerous subtypes of elliptical constructions are distinguished in linguistics (Kennedy, 2003;Merchant, 2013;Yoshida et al, 2016). In our framework we mainly include six types that can be detected in comparison structures: 'VP-deletion', 'Stripping' 6 , 'Pseudogapping', 'Gapping', 'Sluicing', and 'Subdeletion'.…”

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Learning to Jointly Predict Ellipsis and Comparison Structures

Bakhshandeh

Wellwood

Allen

2016

Proceedings of the 20th SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning

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Domain-independent meaning representation of text has received a renewed interest in the NLP community. Comparison plays a crucial role in shaping objective and subjective opinion and measurement in natural language, and is often expressed in complex constructions including ellipsis. In this paper, we introduce a novel framework for jointly capturing the semantic structure of comparison and ellipsis constructions. Our framework models ellipsis and comparison as interconnected predicate-argument structures, which enables automatic ellipsis resolution. We show that a structured prediction model trained on our dataset of 2,800 gold annotated review sentences yields promising results. Together with this paper we release the dataset and an annotation tool which enables two-stage expert annotation on top of tree structures.

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“… 2 Yoshida et al ( 2013 ) based their study on a linguistic phenomenon called sluicing (e.g., Chung et al 1995 ; Frazier and Clifton 1998 ; Merchant 2001 ; Ross 1969 ; Yoshida et al 2014 ), which is a subclass of ellipsis that refers to the omission of linguistic expressions (e.g., Fiengo and May 1994 ; Lobeck 1995 ; Phillips and Parker 2014 ; Ross 1969 ; Sag 1976 ; Williams 1977 ). In (1), for example, the wh-clause’s content recovered from the first clause can be elliptical.…”

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Predictive structure building in language comprehension: a large sample study on incremental licensing and parallelism

Fujita

2023

Cogn Process

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In online language comprehension, the parser incrementally builds hierarchical syntactic structures. The predictive nature of this structure-building process has been the subject of extensive debate. A previous study observed that when a wh-phrase indicates parallelism between the upcoming wh-clause and a preceding clause (e.g., John told some stories, but we couldn’t remember which stories…), the parser predictively constructs the wh-clause. This observation demonstrates predictive structure building. However, the study also suggests that the parser does not make a prediction when the wh-phrase indicates that parallelism does not hold (e.g., John told some stories … with which stories…), a potential limit to the prediction of syntactic structures. Crucially, these findings are controversial because the study did not observe processing difficulty when disambiguating input indicated that the predicted continuation was inconsistent with the globally grammatical structure (garden-path effects). The controversial results may be due to a lack of statistical power. Therefore, the present study conducted a large-scale replication study (324 participants and 24 sets of materials). The results revealed that the parser predicts the clausal structure, irrespective of the type of wh-phrase. There was also evidence of garden-path effects, supporting the finding that the parser makes a prediction. These observations suggest that the prediction algorithm inherent in the human parser is more powerful than assumed by the previous study and that the parser attempts to construct globally grammatical structures during revision.

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The syntax of ellipsis and related phenomena

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Pragmatic Function of Ellipsis in Political Interview

Pragmatic Function of Ellipsis in Political Interview

Learning to Jointly Predict Ellipsis and Comparison Structures

Predictive structure building in language comprehension: a large sample study on incremental licensing and parallelism

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