Open AccessAn incremental approach to gapping in Japanese
Author(s) -
Petter Haugereid
Publication year - 2019
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.2019.3
Subject(s) - computer science , argument (complex analysis) , type (biology) , linguistics , programming language , philosophy , geology , paleontology , biochemistry , chemistry
Gapping in Japanese, which is an SOV language, differs from gapping in SVO languages in that the conjuncts with the elided verbs appear in non-final position. In this paper I present an incremental approach to gapping in Japanese, where it is assumed that an argument structure type is constructed in the non-final clause(s) in the gapping construction. This type is unified with the construction type created by the final clause resulting in identical construction types for all conjuncts in the construction.