Antecedent-contained clausal argument ellipsis
Antecedent-contained clausal argument ellipsis
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DOI：
10.1007/s10831-017-9165-x
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发表时间：
2018-02
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0.5
通讯作者：
K. Takita
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作者：
K. Takita
本文的目的是从省略的角度对零句论元进行具体的分析。首先说明空子句论元的基本句法结构受省略的影响。这一主张的主要和新颖的观察结果是，空从句论元表现出平行限制的效果，其他省略结构如动词短语省略也受到平行限制的影响，沿着Takahashi的路线(Proceages of Fajl 6：Formal Approach to Japan Langutics，麻省理工学院语言学工作论文，剑桥，203-213页，2013)。然后，它考察了一个迄今未被探索的结构，称为包含先行语的子句论元省略，其中零子句论元似乎正确地包含在其先行语中。虽然通过假设直接省略论元的省略过程(论元省略)可以很容易地适应这种结构，但它对其另一种分析提出了严重的困难，这种分析使用省略过程来定位一个头部已经撤离它的VP(动词串VP-省略)。因此，本文提供了一种新的情况，即无论动词串VP-省略分析如何很好地适应其他空论元现象，都需要进行论元省略分析。
The aim of this paper is to argue for a particular analysis of null clausal arguments in terms of ellipsis. It is first illustrated that null clausal arguments have underlying syntactic structures that are subject to ellipsis. The main and novel observation for this claim is that null clausal arguments exhibit the effect of the parallelism constraint that other ellipsis constructions like verb phrase ellipsis are also subject to, along the line of Takahashi (Proceedings of FAJL 6: formal approaches to Japanese linguistics, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, Cambridge, pp 203–213, 2013). It then examines a hitherto unexplored construction, calledantecedent-contained clausal argument ellipsis, where a null clausal argument appears to be properly contained by its antecedent. Although the construction can be readily accommodated by assuming the ellipsis process that directly elides arguments (argument ellipsis), it raises serious difficulties for its alternative analysis that employs the ellipsis process targeting a VP whose head has evacuated it (verb-stranding VP-ellipsis). This paper thus provides a novel case where the argument ellipsis analysis is required, no matter how well the verb-stranding VP-ellipsis analysis accommodates other null argument phenomena.