Open AccessEllipsis of SAY, THINK, and DO in Japanese subordinate clauses: A constructional analysis
Author(s) -
David Y. Oshima
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
proceedings of the international conference on head-driven phrase structure grammar
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1535-1793
DOI - 10.21248/hpsg.2015.10
Subject(s) - ellipsis (linguistics) , predicate (mathematical logic) , linguistics , covert , dependent clause , subject (documents) , computer science , parsing , element (criminal law) , mathematics , natural language processing , philosophy , political science , programming language , sentence , library science , law
This paper addresses some Japanese constructions where the predicate heading a subordinate clause – specifically, a suspensive form of IU 'say', OMOU 'think' or SURU 'do' – appears to be elided. I will discuss that these elliptic constructions are subject to certain syntactic and interpretative constraints which do not apply to their non-elliptic counterparts, and develop an SBCG-analysis that aims to model these constraints without postulating a covert element in the place of the missing verb.