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Ellipsis in Farsi Complex Predicates
Author(s) -
Toosarvandani Maziar
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
syntax
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1467-9612
pISSN - 1368-0005
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9612.2008.01115.x
Subject(s) - verb phrase ellipsis , ellipsis (linguistics) , predicate (mathematical logic) , linguistics , computer science , realization (probability) , complement (music) , verb , verb phrase , phrase , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , mathematics , modal verb , philosophy , programming language , noun phrase , phenotype , gene , statistics , biochemistry , chemistry , noun , complementation
. In this paper, I introduce a novel ellipsis construction from Farsi, v‐stranding VPE, in which part of a complex predicate goes missing, leaving behind the light verb. Under an analysis of complex predicates where the light verb is the overt realization of v, this type of ellipsis can be construed as deletion of the complement of v. I give evidence that this phenomenon patterns with English verb phrase ellipsis (VPE) in a number of important respects. The same licensing conditions that must be satisfied in English VPE, including an inflectional checking requirement and an antecedence condition, must also be satisfied in Farsi v‐stranding VPE.