Ellipsis of SAY, THINK, and DO in Japanese subordinate clauses: A constructional analysis | Zendy

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Ellipsis 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.

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